322 TIDEFORD. Couch Robert, Farmer, Tideford Cross, Harding Wm. Harry
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322 TIDEFORD. [KELLY'S Couch Robert, farmer, Tideford cross, Harding Wm. Harry,grocer & draper Peters Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper Creber Walt.Jn. farmer,Tideford frm Harvey Riehard, butter & egg dealer Pound Samuel, Commercial inn Dawe Wm. timber mer,Cutcrew mill Hawke Rertha Ann (Miss), linen drapr Richards Thomas, farmer, CrifHe Drown John, insurance agent 1 Hocken Jas. (Mrs.), farmer, Bara Pill (postal address, St. Germans) Govett Philip Brenton,grocer & carpntr KeLy John, farmer, Tresulgan Roseveare G eorge, farmer, Polmarkin Greet 'fhomas, boot & shoe maker Matthews Wm. Hy. farmer,Trewolsta Tucker Cyril Grigg, farmer,Molenick Greet William, boot & shoe maker ~Jaynard Henrv, farmer, Cutcrew Weeks William Henry, miller (water), Haddy Oyril, farmer, Trewolsta O'Dogherty Mary Ann & Son, farmrs. Criffie mill (postal address, St. Ger Haddy Richard, carpenter Tredudwell mans) Hancock John Maynard, farmer, I Panter Pete·r Lang, farmer, Clinick Working Men's Reading ROOJ:l!. (Herbt. Trenethick I Pearce Fredk. Wesley, miller (water), Govett, sec) Hancock William Thomas, saddler Heskyn mills TINTAGEL, anciently called Dundagell, is a parish another at Bossiney, erected in r86o, and holding about on the coast, near the entrance of the Bristol Channel, 70: In Trevena, opposite the "Wharncliffe Arms," stand 5 miles from Oamelford •station, opened in Al;lgust, 1893, the mutilated remains of a cross, brought here from Qn the new branch of the South Western railway from Trevillet about 1875; the shaft bears on one side the Launceston to Wadebridge, 6 north-west from Camel- inscription:- ford, 14 north-east from Wadebridge, 20 north from Bod- "...ELNAT + J<'ECIT HA'C CRVCE.\ol P ANIMA SV'," min and 20 from Launceston; the parish is in the North and on the other the names of the Evangelists; the Eastern division of the county, Lesnewth hundred and round head, with ·Maltese cross, is yery imperfect. petty sessional division, Camelford union and county Bossiney is a village I~ miles north-east from the parish court district, rural deanery of Trigg Minor, archdeaconry church. In the village, on the right side of the road of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. The villages of Trevena from Trevena to !Boscastle, is a tumulus, called "Castle and Bossiney in this parish were formed by prescrip- Hill," on which the election writs were read and the tion a united borough, which received its first charter result of the poll declared; it comprises a circular ram from Richard (Plantagenet), Earl of Poitou and Cornwall part, about roo feet in diameter, with a ditch, and on and King of the Romans, and this chartel' was confirmed the west an out-work, inclosing two sides of a square: by Richard II. and Henry VI.: in 1685 James II. granted here also, at a place called" Pentally," is a round-headed a new charter constituting Tintagel, Trevena and Bossiney cross, 4 feet 6 inches in height and I foot 8 inches broad ; a body corporate and politic: the borough returned two the head bears a Maltese cross and has a boss in the members to Parliament from 1552 to 1832, when it was centre. The insignia of the defunct corporation, con disfranchised under the Reform Act, there being then sisting of a mace and borough seal, are still extant : only 19 electors; and the corporation was thereupon the mace, now (rgo6) in the possession of Mr. Philip T. allowed to become extinct. The church of St. Materiana, B. Palmer, farmer, of Menedew, is of silver, 14~ inches standing on a hill overlooking the sea, about half a mile in length, and has a semi-globular head, with a cresting west of the village, is an ancient cruciform building of of leaves : the shaft is banded and ornamented at the stone in the Norman and Perpendiculaa- styles, consist- base with scroll flanges: the seal, of the r6th century ing of chancel with north chUiJel, nave, aisles, transept-s, and also of silver, is circular, and has an elegant handle north and south porches, and an embattled western tower formed of oak leaves and acorns ; it bears the device of a of three stages, containing 5 bells, dated respectiveiy triple towered castle rising out of the sea and surrounded 1735, 1868, 1783, 1828, and 1868: several of the windows by an inscription, and is now in the keep!ng of ~ir. John are stained, one being a memorial to John Douglas Cook Symons, of Bossiney. A fair is held on the Monday esq. formerly editor of the "Saturday Review," who died following Oct. x8th, yearly, for cattle. There are three xoth Aug. 1868, and is buried in the churchyard; there small quarries here. The ruins of Tintagel castle, the are others to Robert Jope Kinsman esq. and Smannah, reputed birthplace of the renowned King Arthur,and long 'his wife, d. 1855; Sarah Anne Radcliffe, d. 31st May, the subject of leg~ndary history and the scene of heroic 1865, and Peter Radcli:ffe, d. 13th July, 1868: in the fiction and romance, are situated a little distance north of north transept (but formerly in the chancel) is a stone the church, on a neck of land uniting the peninsula or -coffin lid with a fl.oriated cross, and above it the head island of Tintagel head to the mainland; the sites occu only of a priest, and in the south transept is a brass with pied by the different portions of the ruins vary in height· 'half effigy and inscription to Joan, the mother of John from 135 to 165 feet above the sea level, both the island Kelly, dean of the collegiate church of Crantock, near on the west and the mainland on the east reaching a Padstow, to which he was appointed January r6, 1430: height of 260 feet, and the isthmus at its lowest level ·on the south side of the chancel is a pis.cina and an sinking to 70 feet: the walls now standing, of rubble Easter sepulchre, inclosing a low raised tomb: on the grouted with extremely hard mortar, are much worn, north side is an aumbry; the reredos is formed out of but there are existing fragments of apparently Norman ancient bench ends ; the chapel, a work of the Transition character, and the original coping remains: the structure period, retains its original stone altar, the upper slab generally, however, is a work of the early 13th century, bearing five crosses, and on each side are wall brackets : and although its plan, owing to landslips caused by the ·in the north transept one of the windows exhibits a niche fury of the sea, cannot now be determined, enough is and a bracket, and here also is a hagioscope, now closed: left to be of considerable interest: the portion on the the west and sonth sides and part of the east side of the mainland consists of two courts, the southernmost of south transept have a stone bench running along them: which, constructed on a high perpendicular rock, retains the early Norman font consists of a basin, square at the one side of the wall inclosing it, with part of the semi top but rounded below, supported on a cylindrical p~des. circular end, the rest having fallen into the sea; the 1:al, and at the angles by octagonal shafts leaning out· adjoining court includes the main entrance, approached wards toward the base; the basin is ornamented with by a narrow causeway, and the walls on the south and rude masks and figures of serpents: in the chancel are east are standing, but the north end has fallen down the carved stall ends brought from St. Teath, with the arms slope and there remains : the chasm between the main of Hill and Trecarrell: there are various memorial tab· 1 land and the island, 200 feet across, was once spanned lets, including one to John Gill, vicar, ob. gth June, by a drawbridge, but the island is now rea~hed from 1692, and others to Chri!!topher Chilcott, ob. 29th Jan. Trevena by a road crossing the mill stream and passing 16]6; Matthew Sweet!!er, vicar, ob. 28th July, 1668; round the north end of the rocky eminence on which ~icholas Brown, ob. 1633: Jobn Brown, ob. 1644, and the mainland part of the castle stands, where it ter Joan Struate, ob. 1633: in the churchyard are minates in a narrow path, continued in a zigzag course numerous inscribed !!tones to the Avery, Arthur, Bray up the precipitous face of the cliff on the other side, and Wade families: a stone inscribed "IMP. C. G. VA. at the top of which is a fragment of a wall and a door LIC. LICIN." A.D. 307, has been removed into the way leading to another court, inclosed by strongly but-. church: the communion plate includes a chalice of late tressed walls: at the north end, which is semicircular, 17th century date, with a paten cover: the church was is another arched entrance, and here the wall is carried restored in 1870, under the direction of Mr. J. P. St. 1 by bold stepped battlements up the rocks on the west: Aubyn, architect. The register of bapt.isms dates from I on the summit of an eminence, a little distance to the the year 1569; marriages, 1558; burials, 1546. The liv- west, are the ruins of the chapel of St. Julitta, consist ing i!! a vicarag-e, net yearly value {,216. with 95 acres of ing 11imply of chancel and nave, the total length being glebe and residence, in the gift of the Dean and Canons about 38 feet and the width 12 feet.