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LANIVET is a township, parish and
village on the high road from Bodmin to Truro, 3 miles
south west from Bodmin station on the Great Western
railway, in the south eastern division of the county,
hundred of Pydar, petty sessional division of Trigg,
Bodmin union and County Court district, rural deanery
and archdeaconry of Bodmin and diocese of Truro. 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 western tower
containing 6 bells: there is an altar tomb of marble to
the Rev. Nicholas Philips B.C.L. a former rector, d.1817
and others of that family, 1823-1845: a memorial to John
Cody, rector, ob, 1485; a monument with effigy to John
Courtney, ob. 1559, and Richard Courtney, ob. 1632, as
well as numerous monuments of modern date: the communion
plate is kept in an antique pyx of “cuir boulli,”
conjectured to be of the 14th century: the church was
restored and reseated in 1864, when an organ was
erected: some ancient wall paintings were discovered
during the restoration, but it was found impossible to
preserve them: the sculptured reredos of stone is by
Harry Hems, of Exeter: there are 256 sittings: in the
churchyard are two fine examples of ancient crosses: one
of these 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 register
of baptisms dates from the year 1656; the marriages,
1754; burials 1670. The living is a rectory, average
tithe rent-charge £503, net yearly value £450, including
42 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of Rev.
Frederick Bateman Paul, of Exeter, and held since 1892
by the Rev, Frederick William Paul, M.A., of Wadham
College, Oxford. There are Bible Christian chapels in
the village, at Nanstallon and Tretoil, and Wesleyan
chapels in the village, at Nanstallon and at St.
Lawrence. The Parish Institute is a galvanised
structure, erected in 1891 by the Rev. F.B. Paul, rector
1881-1892; it contains reading and recreation rooms, and
is supported by members subscriptions. The rents of the
parish lands amount to about £175 yearly, of which £10
is applied to apprenticing, £66 is distributed in
bedding and the rest is applied to the support of a
school. Part of the population is engaged in mining,
there being tin 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. Ingungar are 2 crosses, and at
Tremoor one placed at the junctions of the roads. St.
Benet’s, for a considerable time the seat of the
Courtenays, was repaired and restored in 1854, and is
now the residence of Capt. Charles Eldon Sergeant: the
house incorporates portions of a reputed monastery of
the Benedictine order, and the greater part of the front
belonged to the original fabric; the walls are about 4
feet thick, and attached to the south end is a building
lighted by a good oriel window displaying the arms of
the Courtenay, Arundel and Archer families: to the rear
of the main building is an ivy-clad tower of granite
ashlar, with an arch 20 feet in height; the upper part
of the tower, including the battlements and pinnacles,
and also it is said, some cloisters, were removed by Mr.
Grose, a former owner, who built a farmhouse with the
materials. Lord Robartes, Cyril Onslow Peter-Hoblyn,
Francis John Henwood, Thomas Grose and John Tremayne
esq. D.L., J.P. of Heligan, St. Ewe, H. Dennis esq.
Ruabon, N. Wales, and Miss Ffrench are the main
landowners. The soil is various; the subsoil is slate
and dunstone. The chief crops are barley and oats, and
there are extensive moorlands. The area s 5,936 acres;
rateable value £5,687; the population in 1891 was 981. |
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