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Trengove Richard, beer retailer & soda Vercoe Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), saddler Wherry Phillip J. grocer water manufacturer Vincent William (Mrs.), shopkeeper Waters John, butcher, Doubletrees Turner Archibald, plumber Viol Nellie (Miss), dress maker Williams Mary (Miss), draper Turner Isaac Watts, grocer Wallis Frederick, ironmonger ·williams Thomas, grocer

BLISLAND, anciently called "Bluston '' and "Blil!ton­ purchased by the Molesworths, who in turn disposed of juxta-Montem," but in Domesday "Glustone," is a town­ it to the Collin.s family; the old hvuse is now in ruina ship, small village and parish, bounded on the west by and cattle sheds have been built with its materials: thtt the and north-west by the river De Lank, 5 new house erected in 1890, to the west of the former miles north-east from and 7 north from Bodmin house, incorporates in its porch a. granite doorway from Road station on the Great Western railway, in the North the old building; the estate pays a modus of £3 to the Eastern division of the county, hundred and petty ses­ rect()r in lieu of tithes. Lavethan, the 1"&\0idence of J. R. sional division of Trigg, Bodmin union and oounty court Morshood Glencross esq. js a mansion chiefly of the 1;rth district, rural deanery and archdeaconry of Bodmin and century, although portions of it certainly date from the diocese of . The church of St. Prothus, or St. 16th century, if not earlier, but it has undergone various Pratt, is an ancient and highly interesting edifice of stone, modern alterations. There was a Louse at Lavethan as now chiefly in the Perpendicular style, but with some early as 1475, and shortJy after this date it came into Norman portions, and consis-ting of chancel with aisles, the possession of the family of Kempe: in 1654 William nave of four bays, north transept, south aisle, south tran­ Kempe sold the place to Christopher Walker, !Uld it sept or Lavethan chapel, south porch, and on the nQrth afterwards passed by a f'6ries of 1eirs to the families of side, continued from the north end of the transept, an Dankyn, 'l're.ise and Morshead: on the E.ale of Sir John embattled tower of three stages, with a stair turret at Morshead's lands a.t the beginning of the 19th century the north-east angle, and buttresses rising into square Lavethan and some of the land passed to his brother, pinnacles; the belfry, pierced by large traceried windows, Gen. William Morshead, the great-grandfather of the oontains 6 bells cast in !790 : the north wall of the nave present holder. In the village is a 01'09S, 4 feet high, and parts of the western walls of the nave and north with a semi-circular head, bearing a Latin cross in transept are Norman work: the spiral staircase leading a sunk panel; by the roadside, at a short disW.nce from to the rood loft remains in the north wall of the north the village, is another, between 4 and 5 feet high, but chancel aisle, and the south chancel aisle retains a now mostly buried, the round head only appearing; this piscina : a modern screen, of flamboyant design, separate8 cross formerly stood by the well ·of St. Prothus; in a field the chancel from the nave; it is richly carved' and deco­ near is a. good bevelled cross head set up on a post, its rated with gold and colours, and supports a. crucifix and shaft is in another field: this cross in its complete form the figul't's of St. Ma.ry and St. John: the font is Per­ originally stood in the churchyard of this parish ; at pendicular and consists of a C'ircular basin on an octagonal Lavethan are also t~ heads of crosses removed from base; th~ original Norman font, a rude circular bowl, moor; at Peverell's cross is a tall and fine with incised ornament on the exterior, is still preset ved: example, 6 feet in height, the arms of the cross projecting the !;Outh transept or Lavetha.n chapBl was fitted with beyond the round head, and near it is a rugged peak pews in 1638· by the Reynolds family, for their use; it called " St. Bartlemy's Tor," on the summit of which are subsequently belonged to t.be family of Treise, and next a chapel and a well; in the grounds at Trewardale is the to the MOTSheads, who converted it into a. private ohapel, head of a cross which originally stood at the intersection with an entrance on the south; it is now 1Uled as a of the r

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Glencross Mrs. Lavethan COMMERCIAL. Collins Rev. Edwd.Vernon M.A.Rectry Masters Miss, Newton house Axworthy Austin, boot & shoe maker Copeland William Edward, Lavetban Morshead Sir Warwick Charles bart. Axworthy Edgar, grocer & sub-post­ Edward-Collins Mrs. Trewardale J.P. Tregaddick master Glencro-ss James Reginald Morshead, Studdy Capt. Ernest Holdsworth,Tre­ Bunt 1Villiam., farmer, Trehudretb Lavethan genna. Burnard .Tames ThomiD!, groce7