142 ST. IVE. ·CORNWALL. [KELLY'B · PE.l~SILVA is a large village, 2! miles north-west, in- Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T. M. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel babited chiefly by miners : an iron mission church was Post, S. B. & .Annuity & Insurance Office, Pensilva.- -erected in. 1900, with money left for that purpGse by the 'Villiam B. May, sub-postmaster. Letters thmugh late Rev. Reginald Hobhouse M.A. and will seat r6o Liskeard arrive at 7·35 a.m.; dispe1tched at 4-30 p.m persons. Here are Wesleyan and Bible Christian chapels, National School, Pensilva, built in 184r, for 260 children;' ;and a place of worship belonging to the Methodist United average attendance, 59 boys, 52 girls & 53 infants; R. Free Church. The population in 1901 was 949· Satchwill, master; Mrs. E. Trelease, infants' mistress ST. IVE. ~futton Brothers (William), shoe rnas. Del bridge 1Ym. fmrner, Lit. Wools ton Parkfield Drake William, farmer Coar Rev. Charles John :Ml..A.. Rectory Mutton W'illiam, farmer, Redland Drew William Henrv, tailor Pett John, farmer, Higher Crifb · Eva Francis, farmer & fish dealer COMMERCIAL. Rice Harry, farmer, Higher Keason Flowers Thomas (exors.

ST. IVES is a municipal borough and parish, on the entirely repaved at a cost of £rso, defrayed by the late north coast of Cornwall, on the shore of St. Ives bay, and Robert Hichens esq. of London, and in 1887-9 it was new t,he terminus of the St. Ives branch from St. Erth, of roofed at an outlay of £598: the eagle lectern, copied the. Great 1Vestern railway, 9 miles north-north-east from that in "\Vantage church, Berkshire, was presented 'from Penzance, 15 miles west from Redruth, 22 miles in 1866 by the Rev. J. B. Jones M.A. vicar here r86g­ west-north-west from Falmouth, 22 miles west-south-west I90I ; the east window is a memorial to members of the irom Truro and 325 from London, in the 1Vestern division family diocese of Truro. Formerly it was called reset the fragments of a brass to Otho Trenwyth esq. ob. Portbia, and before the arrival of St. la, or Ives, c. 450 1462-3, and Agnes his wife; these now include only the .A.D. it is said to have been known as Pendinas, from the kneeling effigy of Dame .Agnes and a small figure of St. headland which marked its position. St. Ives is recorded Michael, bearing a shield with an irradiated cross and as a borough in 1558, when it was governed by a port- vanquishing the dragon; over the head of the saint is a reeve and burgesses; it was first incorporated by Charles scroll with the invocation, "Ssncte MicseU ors pro nobis," J:. in r639, which charter, forfeited in r685, was renewed and below the figures an inscription: here is also a brass by James II. in r686, and this charter remained in force to the original members of the St. Ives Artillery corps: until modified by the operation of the Municipal C{)rpora- there are monuments to the Sise family, 1642, and others tions Act, 1835 (5 & 6 1Vm. IV. c. 76). The Corpora- of more modern date to the families of Stephens, 1729- t.ion now consists of a mayor, four aldermen and twelve , r852; Hichens, 1770-I851; Hocking, rBoo-49; and -councillors. The borough returned two members to Par- others : the church will seat 700 persons. The church­ liament from the year 1558 until the passing of the Reform yard, which is near the sea, is defended from the waves .Act of 1832, when it lost one member, and by the Redis- by a strong and high wall. In the churchyard is an un­ tribution of Seats Act, r885, it was deprived of its in- usually fine cross with a flattened octagonal shaft and a dependent representation and with the district of Pen- square panelled head carved with a crucifix, over which zance and St. Just it now forms the St. Ives or \Vesi;ern is a crowned head representing the first person of the division. The borough has a commission of the peace. Trinity and other subjects; it was discovered in the The town is irregularly built and has very narrow streets, churchyard in 1832 and is ro feet 6 inches in height, but. there are terraces of good private houses and many and in 1852 was re-erected on a. new base by Robert modern villas, and on entering the town from Hayle the Hichens esq. The register dates from the year 1686 . .general appearance of the place is charmingly picturesque; · The living is a. vicarage, net yearly value £2?-.7· "·ith it is lighted with gas by a company. By leave of the residence, built in 1840, in the gift of the vicar of Lelant, Local Government Board the town council have borrowed and held !iince ICJOI by the Rev. Sidney Frank Marsh .

.£ r8,5oo for the purposes of sewerage and gas and water 1 In connection with the parish church there is a mariners' ·supply and other purposes. The church of St. Yvo or i chapel. The C