Lelant (with St. Ives & Towednack)

House: ‘we doe not know or have heard that any Vicaridge house or Glebeland doth, or ever did belong to the Parishes of St. Ives & Towednacke … which are Daughter-Churches [of] … Lelant’. Lelant vicarage: ‘all the vicarage house & all the Outhouses together with all the Gardens & all the Glebelands (& Orchards if any were) … have been wholly overwhelm’d & covered for several years last past & also at this present time with sand blown up from the sea … In the Vicaridge house was one Hall one Buttery one Kitchen & two Chambers; wherein Mr. Thomas Corey a former Incumbent lived till the Sand came in thorow the said house upon his Table & into his Bed & did otherwise So molest & incomode him, that he was forced to quitt it, notwithstanding his diligent endeavours to ye contrary’. Outhouses were a barn, a stable, a ‘roome for keeping implements of husbandry’, with a hay loft over. A garden bounded by the glebe land.

Glebe: ‘There were belonging to the said Vicaridge severall enclosed fields of good & fertill land containing by Supposition twenty Acres or upwards’, with a common of 20–30a. to the N., the whole bounded by the highway from St. Ives to Helston on the SE. to Chappel Anjoe on the N., bounded on the S. & SE. by the River Hayle, on the N. by the sea, on the W., SW., & S. by the manor of Lelant & Trevethow, belonging to John, Earl of Radnor & James Praed Esq. ‘In the aforesaid Glebelands were formerly Tyn Mines whereby aurned considerable benefitt & advantage of Farme-Tyn to the former & last Incumbents also but none at all to the Present’.

Church: ‘There was heretofore … another Church … between the sea & the Church now in use, which hath been some hundreds of years since lost by means of the blown sand: & the Present Church alsoe is extreamly damnified by the same meanes: the one halfe thereof being falen & lost: & the blown sand neare the Church as also on the Vicaridge Land as high (if not higher) than the Church itselfe at the Present’.

Signatories: John Hawkins, vicar, Arth[ur] Edwards, John Hawking & the sign of Edmund Uren, churchwardens.

House & glebe: none within the memory of man: ‘… all the Glebe Lands entirely covered by an immense Quantity of Sand blown in upon them from the Sea’. But a former terrier notes a house and several glebe fields, about 20a., with a waste or common 30a., bounded on the SE. by the road from St. Ives to Helston and on the N. by Chapel Anjoe rock, on the SE. & E. by the river Hayle, on the N. by the sea, on the W., SW. & S. by the manor of Trevethoe and Lelant and that in these glebe lands ‘are considerable Tin Mines or Tin Works’.

Payments: £1 6s. 8d. p.a. paid to Lelant Church by St. Ives, 4s. p.a. paid by Towednack.

Fees: Easter offerings 2d. p.a. for every person over 16; for writing marriage banns 1s., for a certificate of banns published 2s. 6d., for marrying with banns 2s. 6d. if parishioners, 5s. if strangers; churching 6d., burying 1s. An exemption from paying morturaries pretended.

Tithes: hay, milk, herbage, hops, apples, pigs, geese, honey and all other things titheable save corn, wool and lambs are due in kind to the vicar.

Furnishings: an embroidered pulpit cloth and cushion of crimson velvet, a Communion Table and a cloth of scarlet broadcloth with a silk fringe, 2 Common Prayer Books folio, a Bible folio, a book of homilies folio, a chest for vestments etc., a surplice, 5 bells in the tower, a large silver flagon inscribed ‘The Gift of Sir Nath[aniel] Napier Bart & Thos. Hearle Esq to the Parish of Lelant 1726’ weight 55 oz., a silver salver inscribed ‘The Bread which we break is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ? 1st. Cor. 10th Chap. 10th Verse’ weight 14 ozs., a silver chalice & cover inscribed ‘Uny Lelant 1726’ weight 32 ozs. 5pw.

Church: the parish repairs the church, chancel and churchyard fence.

Clerk & sexton: £4 and £2 p.a. respectively, paid by the churchwardens. The clerk appointed by the vicar and parish jointly, the sexton by the parish.

Signatories: William Shepheard, vicar, James Stevens & Edw[ar]d Banfield, churchwardens, Hu[mphrey] Pawley, Clement Uren, Henry Banfield, Hanniball Hosking.

House & glebe: none, being a daughter church of Lelant.

Payments: £1 6s. 8d. paid by the Borough of St. Ives to the mother church.

Fees: as Lelant save morturaries which are 10s. for every person dying worth £10 or more, and £1 p.a. from the Mayor of the Borough for a sermon to be preached on the day of his election, the gift of Mrs. Cheston Hicks.

Tithes: as Lelant; but corn, wool, fish and lambs not due to the vicar.

Furnishings: a pulput cloth of crimson damask and a cushion of crimson plush, a Communion Table with 2 cloths of scarlet broadcloth, 4 ‘cricketts’ with Cushions ‘for the communicants to kneel upon’, a bier, 2 surplices, 2 Books of Common Prayer folio, a Bible folio, a book of homilies folio, Bishop Jewel’s works folio with a desk for it to stand on, a chest for the vestments etc., 3 bells and an old clock in the tower, 2 large silver flagons both engraved ‘GH’ on the handles each 116 ozs. 17pw., a silver salver with the arms of Sir William Pendarves Kt. inscribed ‘Pendarves de Pendarves Ecclesia dedit Anno 1713’ 15oz. 3pw., a large silver chalice inscribed ‘The Guift of Alles Sise to the Church of St. Ives Anno Domin: 1641’ and a cover inscribed ‘St. I.’ 25 ozs. together, a small silver chalice with a cover inscribed ‘IHS’ 12 ozs., a large silver plate inscribed ‘RHK 1675’ 12 ozs. 7pw.

Church: the Borough repairs the church, chancel and churchyard fence.

Clerk & sexton: £5 and £3 p.a. respectively, paid by the churchwardens. The clerk appointed by the vicar, the sexton by the Borough.

Signatories: William Shepheard vicar, P. Tremearn & James Renals churchwardens, John Ceely, Rich[ar]d Harry, N. Busvargus, John King, John Noall, John Hichens mayor, Vivian Stevens, Nath[aniel] Anthony, Tho[mas] Anthony, Joseph Gubbs.

House & glebe: none, being a daughter church of Lelant.

Payments: 4s. p.a. paid by the parish to the mother church.

Fees: Easter offering 2d. for every married person over 16, 1d for every unmarried person; banns & marriages, churchings, burials: as Lelant. Morturaries: as St. Ives.

Tithes: as Lelant.

Furnishings: a pulpit cloth and cushion of black serge, a Communion Table with a cloth of blue broad cloth, 2 Books of Common Prayer folio, a Bible folio, a book of homilies folio, a surplice, a chest in which to keep the vestments etc., a bier, 3 bells in the tower, a chalice with a cover engraved ‘1576’ 9 oz. 4pw.

Church: as Lelant

Clerk: 30s. p.a. paid by the churchwardens and appointed by the vicar. No sexton.

Signatories: William Shepheard vicar, David Curnow & John Roberts churchwardens, Peter Curnow, Robert Curnow, Paul Quick, Michael Curnow.