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Lanivet is a township, parish, and
village, included within the parliamentary borough of
Bodmin, in the Easter division of the county, hundred of
Pidar, Bodmin union and county court district, rural
deanery and archdeaconry of Bodmin, and diocese of
Truro, situated on the high road from Bodmin to Truro, 3
miles south-west from Bodmin, and 6 west from Bodmin
Road station on the Cornwall railway. The church (name
unknown) is an ancient building of stone, in the Early
Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave,
aisles, south porch, and an embattled tower containing 6
bells: there is an altar tomb of marble to the Rev.
Nicholas Philips B.C.L., a former rector, 1817, and
others of that family, 1823-45; a memorial to John Cody,
rector, ob. 1485, a monument with effigy, to John
Courtney, 1559, and Richard Courtney, 1632, as well as
numerous monuments of modern date, and some ancient
frescoes: the church was restored and reseated in 1864,
when an organ was also erected. In the churchyard are
two fine examples of ancient crosses; one, which is 9
feet high, is incised with a human figure and ornamental
work, and has a mutilated head; the other, at the west
end, is 10 feet 6 inches high, elaborately worked on
each side, and the head consists of a Maltese cross
combined with a circle. The church will seat 256
persons: the communion plate is kept in an antique Pyx
of cuvi bouilli, conjectured to be of the
fourteenth century. The register of baptisms dates from
the year 1656: marriages, 1754; burials, 1670. The
living is a rectory, tithe rent charge £568, net yearly
value £565, with residence and 42 acres of glebe, in the
gift of and held since 1881 by the Rev. Frederick
Bateman Paul, Lic. Theol. of the University of Durham.
The rents of the parish lands amount to £156 yearly, £10
is applied to apprenticing, £66 is distributed in bread
and fuel, and the rest is applied to the support of a
school. There are Bible Christian chapels in the
village, at Nanstallon and at Tretoil, and Wesleyan
chapels in the village, at Nanstallon and at St.
Lawrence. Part of the population is engaged in mining,
there being tin and iron mines in the parish. At Fenton
Pits is an ancient round-headed cross on a circular
base, and about 7 feet high; near it, by the road side,
is another, broken: at St. Ingongar are two crosses, and
at Tremoor one placed at the junction of the roads. St
Benet’s, for a considerable time a seat of the
Courtenays, is an ancient structure, once a religious
house: it was restored and repaired in 1844, and is now
the residence of Capt. Charles Eldon Serjeant: the
original tower of the chapel, a unique work of granite
ashlar, still remains. Lord Robartes and the trustees of
the late Peter Hoblyn and John Henwood esqrs. are chief
landowners. The chief crops are barley and oats, and
there are extensive moorlands. The area is 5,396 acres;
rateable value, £5,458; the population in 1881 was
1,030. |
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