CORNWALL. PROBUS • 12Ql • Christmas Charles, Landscape Gardener Jewell William, Jun
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
DIRECTORY.] CORNWALL. PROBUS • 12Ql • Christmas Charles, landscape gardener Jewell William, jun. assessor of taxes, Sandercock James, farmer, Ivy leafe ·Cornish .Alex. dairyman, & parish clerk Burshill Skitch Robert, shoe maker Darraeott William, farmer, Tiscott Knight Edward,miller (water) & farmr Skitch Susan (Mrs.),shopkpr.Post office Down Ellen (Miss), schoolmistress Knight Saml. jun. yeoman, Dye house Southwood John, mason, & lodging ho. Dunstan William F.R.G.s. collegiate Metherell Thos. farmr.Higher N orthcott Lake cottage school, Mere down [letters through Parnacott John, blacksmith Thomas Rd. landscape gardener, Bush Bnde R.S.O] Pennington Thomas, shopkeeper Uglow Nicholas,farmer & mason, Mount Gilbert George, farmer, Maer Pen warden David, butcher Pleasant Gilbert 'rhomas, farmer, Wooda Prouse Samuel, Bay Tree farm Vinner John, farmer, Crockwoild Hopgood Mary (Mrs.), lodging house, Prout Elias, farmer, Wells Wackley William Edward, carpenter The Cottage Rogers Thomas, farmer, Bow lane Yelland Thomas, farmer, Ashton Jewell William, yeoman, Burshill • .l'OUNDSTOCX is a parish, on the shore of Bude bay, erected in 1879 and seating xoo persons. The manorial 5 miles south-by-west from Stratton and u~ west-south- rights are divided. The principal landowners are Edward west from Holsworthy station on the London and South Mueklow esq. J.P. (Lane.), of Whitstone Head, Holsworthy, Western railway, in the North Eastern division of the county, and Mrs. S. G. Bake, of Lanteglos-by-Camelford. The soil is hundred and petty sessional division of Lesnewth, union of chiefly clay; subsoil, the same. 'rhe chief crops are wheat, Stratton, Holsworthy county court district, rural deanery barley, oats and roots. The area is 4,8r4 acres (including .of Stratton, archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. 190 of water); rateable value, £3,000; the population in The church of St. Neot is an ancient building of stone and 1891 was 496. granite in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, nave of four BANGERS, half a mile east; CoPPETHORNE, I mile north bays, north aisles, south transept and an embattled western east; PENLEAN, r mile south ; TRESKINNICK CRoss, half a tower, with crocketed pinnacles, containing 5 bells, a11 cast mile south-east; TREGOLE, a mile south-west, are hamlets. ;n 179r: portions of the rood screen with painted figures on PosT OFFICE, Coppethorne.-Thomas Rowland, sub-post- it remain, as well as some carved bench ends: the font is master. Letters through Stratton R.S.O. (North Devon) Transition Norman and has a square bowl with arcaded arrive at 8.40 a.m. & dispatched at 4 p.m. Stratton is 1!1ides: there is a brass to the Trebarfoote family, 16r6-3o, the nearest mopey order &telegraph office. Postal orders 3nd others of later dates: the church is in a very dilapidated are issued here, but not paid . -condition: there are 300 sittings. The register dates from WALL LETTER Box at Treskinnick Cross, cleared at 3.40 the year r6r5. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge p.m. week days only £155, net income £14o, including 30 acres of glebe, with A School Board of 5 members was formed 27 July, 1874; house, in the gift of B. Dayman esq. and others, and James Broad, clerk to the board & attendance officer beld since I88g by the Rev. Ernest rresgrave Hebblethwaite Board, School (mixed), built in I877, for 85 children; M:. A. of Exeter College, Oxford. Here is a Free Methodist average attendance, 57; John Dobson Graf, master; Miss -chapel, built in 1840, and a chapel for Bible Christians, Susan Marshall, assistant mistress • Hebblethwaite Rev. Ernest Presgrave Greenaway John, farmer, Trevissick Marshall William Ward, carpenter, M:. A. Vicarage Goman William, farmer, & registrar of Treskinnick cross cOMMERCIAL. births & deaths for the sub-district Medland Henry, farmer, Burracott Avery Richard, hind to Edward Muck- of Week St. Mary & marriages for Medland Thomas, farmer, Crethome low esq. Blackdown · Stratton union, Treskinnick Neal William, farmer, Cawswell BattenJn. blcksmith.Coppethorne cross Hawken Joseph, farmer, Tregole Pellow Wm. Trehane, farmer, Trewint Berriman Jn. farmer, Higher Widemth Heard Joseph, miller (water), Wool- Penfound John, carpenter, Box's shop Bray John, shopkeeper & tailor, Tres- stone mill Rowland Thomas, shopkeeper & tailor, kinnick cross Heard Samuel, farmer, Highway Post office, Coppethorne Broad James, farmer Henwood Samuel, blacksmith, Tres- Sandercock John, jnn. farmer, Treken- Congdon Lewis, farmr. Low. Cawswell kinnick cross nard & Penlean Dennis Judith Elizabeth Ann (Mrs.), Hicks Robert, farmer, Lower Trewint Sandercock Samuel, farmer, Trebarfoot farmer, Woolstone Hicks Thomas, shoe maker Sandercock Thomas, farmer, Penhalt Dennis Richard, farmer, Widemouth Hill John, farmer, Mades Shepherd John, farmer, Trevolter Dennis William Hy. farmer, Wanson Legg James, hind to Edward Mucklow Smeeth John, miller (water), Millhook Featherstone William, carpenter & esq. Penfound · Stacey Nicholas, farmer, Longlands shopkeeper, Bangers Marks Thomas, f~rmer, New mills Stephens Amos, farmer, Tregole FolleyMaryAnn(Mrs.),drss.ma.Penn la Marks William, farmer, Penhalt Thomas Joseph, farmer Fry John, miller (water), New mill Marks Nicolls, farmr. Poundstock down .Werren John, farmer, Herds Gloyn John, farmer, Kennicott Marshall Francis, Turk's Head P.H. Wilcock 'Ihomas, farmer, Hillscott Greenaway James, farmer, Highway Treskinnick cross Yeo Daniel, shoe maker, Bangers PROBUS, with a portion of the hamlet of TRESILLIAN, is Exeter and Washbourne, in the county of Devon, 1773 : in a large parish and compact village, on the high road from the chancel is a monument to Thomas Hawkins esq. J.P., Truro to St. Austell, 2i' miles south-west from Grampound M.P. who died in 1766; there are alsovariousmodernmonu Road station on the Cornwall (Great Western) railway, si ments: the chancel screen, formed of portions of the ancient north-east from Truro and 8 south-west from St. A us tell, screen and bench ends, is dated 169r, and bears an inscrip in the Mid division of the county, western division of the tion as follows:-" Jesus, hear us, thy people, and send us hundred of Powder, petty sessional division of Powder grace and good for ever:" there are eight stained windows, South, Truro union and county court district, rural deanery chiefly memorials, including the east window, erected by the Qf Powder, archdeaconry of Cornwall and diocese of Truro. Rev. Prebendary Barnes, in memory of his parents, and the Tresillian bridge, across the St. Clement's creek of the river west window,erected in 1851 by the clergy of the neighbour Fa!, connectR the parishes of Probus and Merther, which hood, in memory of the Rev. Robert Lampen; a new stained latter and Cornelly were originally portions of this window is now (1893) about to be placed in the Golden aisle parish. A small portion of the town of Grampound is to the memory of William Trethewy esq. of Tregoose, by the in Probus and the remainder in Creed ; the latter being tenantry on the Trewithen estates : the font is a memorial connected with Probus by a bridge across the river Fal. to Sarah, wife of the Rev. William Stackhouse, ob. March The church of SS. Probus and Grace, made collegiate by 7th, r845, and the pulpit of Caen stone to William and King Athelstan A.D. 926, for a dean and four prebendaries, Mary Stackhouse, ob. 1830 and r8o6: in the north wall but dissolved at the Reformation, is an edifice of stone in remain the rood stairs, open and in good condition, and in a the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of five reliquary in the north wall of the chancel are preserved two bays, aisles, north and south porches and a tower containing skulls, supposed to be those of the patron saints of the a clock and 6 bells: the tower, regarded by some as the church, and which were discovered under the altal' during finest in Cornwall, is constructed of St. Stephen's granite the restoration: a new organ was placed in the church in and is xo8 feet high to the battlements, the angles are sup- July, r884, at a cost of £soo, and in r886 a reredos Wa.&. ported by double buttresses, embellished with embrasures, erected and the roof of the chancel decorated, from designs and above these rise 8 crocketed pinnacles 13 feet in height, by Mr. J. P. St. Aubyn, architect, of London, as a memorial each with 4 lesser pinnacles : the plinth, cornices and upper to the Rev. Prebendary Barnes M. A. late vicar: the reredos storey are ornamented with small figures, foliage, fleurs-de- was the gift· of Mrs. Barnes, and the cost of the chancel lis, animals and other carvings, and on the north and south decorations was defrayed by the parishioners : in r85r the sides are three Gothic niches : in the Golden aisle is a brass church was partly rebuilt and thoroughly restored, under with effigies to John Wulvedon, ob. 6th November, 1514, the direction of the late G. E. Street .R.A. architect, at a. and Cecilia, his wife, ob. 2oth April, r5r2, and on the floor cost of £x,soo; in r888 the roof of the north aisle and is a stone inscribed to the Rev. William Cornish, 1789, and chancel were again restored, and the nave, south aisle and Jane, his wife, first cousin and hetress of John Kelly esq. of porch re-roofed in r893 at a cost of £25o; there are 500 DEV. & CORN. 79* • .