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from the nth century and its tympanum is enriched with of the present owner, caused a thorough restoration to carved work of interlaced rings: at the junction of the be made in accordance with plans and elevations found chancel and transept is a remarkable hagioscope, and in among the family papers ; the house now occupies three the chancel wall is a "leper's window" : there are no sides of a square and consists of a centre and north wing, monuments: the church was restored in I873-4, at a the other wing being formed by a large and handsome con­ cost of £9oo, when many relics of the former building servatory; the house is panelled throughout, the library were brought to light; the old pews were replaced by in Italian walnut, the dining room in oak, and there are open seats and the carved woodwork of the roof carefully many beautiful pieces of old carved oak furniture; in the cleaned and preserved : a reredos of carved stone was dining-room is a four-fold screen of well-preserved hand erected in 1895: there are 250 sittings: in the churchyard needlework, representing twelve figure subjects ; • and is a monolithic granite cross, 9 feet high and of great the collection of china is both extensive and valuable, some antiquity, and some tombs to the families of Lyle and of the examples of Dresden ware being unique: attached is Davey. The register of baptisms and burials dates from a very complete model farm. managed upon thoroughly the year 1690; marriages, 1691. The living is a vicarage scientific and practical principles.-J all the buildings earn­ consolidated with that of Gunwalloe, joint net yearly value prised in it are most complete and were re-arranged by .£n8, with residence, in the gift of Captain John Peverell the present proprietor. The principal landowners are J . Rogers R..A. and held since 1878 by the Rev. Joseph Sydney Davey esq. the trustees of the late Glynn Grylls Chambers B . .A. of Trinity College, Dublin, who resides at esq. and H. P. Varley esq. The soil is exceedingly fertile, Gunwalloe. At White Cross is a United Free Methodist especially on the south; the subsoil is killas and green­ chapel, with sittings for so people, and a Wesleyan chapel stone, or hornblende rocks. The chief crops are wheat, holding 6o persons. The parish feast is on the nearest barley, oats and turnips. The area is 2,845 acres, inc:ud­ Sunday to the 2nd November, or to All Souls' day. ing 7S acres of water; rateable value, £3,268 ; the popula­ Bochym, the seat of Joshua Sydney Davey esq. J.P. stands tion in 1891 was 354· near the high road from to Lizard, about 5 miles Parish Clerk, John Martin. from the former place; this estate appears in the Ex­ Post, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office, chequer Domesday as "Buchent," and was then held by Cury Cross Lanes (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should Robert Count of Mortein, half-brother of William the Con­ have R.S.O. Cornwall added).-Mrs. Mary Ann Trezise, ·queror; during the Oivil wars Bochym was a place of postmistress. Letters arrive at 8.55 a.m. & are dis­ ·refuge for the Royalists, and there are still pointed out patched at 3·45 p.m in the " oak room " secret staircases and sliding panels in National School (mixed), built in 1849• for 94 children; the wainscot, but a portion of the building is of much average attendance, 56; the infants' school in connection more ancient date; the late Stephen Davey esq. father is at Gunwalloe ; John Martin, master Boaden Joseph, Cross lanes Day George & Son, farmers, Treloskan Skewes Henry, greengrocer & shoe Davey Joshua Sydney J.P. Bochym & Gilly maker, Poles