ST. JUST-IN-PENWITH is a market town, township and parish, near the coast at Cape Cornwall, 7 miles west from Penzance, nearest railway station, in the Western division of the county, hundred of Penwith, petty sessional division of Penwith West, Penzance union and county court district, rural deanery of Penwith, archdeaconry of Cornwall and diocese of Truro.
The town consists of several streets diverging from a triangular space in the centre. The church of St. Just is a fine building of granite and free stone, in the Later Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, battlemented south porch, vestry and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing a clock and 3 bells: in a recess in the north wall of the chancel is a curious old incised slab bearing on one side the inscription “SILVS HC JACET,” and on the upper side an incised “labarum,” or sacred monogram, of very ancient date: built into the wall of the north aisle is an ancient cross found in the old chapel at Cape Cornwall, about a mile and a half west: the large chandeliers were given by John Edwards, of Truthwall, in 1746: there are memorials to the families of Millett, Chenhalls and others, and memorial windows to Owen Boyle, light keeper of Longship lighthouse, who lost his life on the 25th Oct. 1877, to Stephen Harvey James, sen. d. 1870, and to Stephen Harvey James, jun. d. 1887: the chancel was rebuilt in 1834, and the church restored in 1865 under the direction of J. P. St. Aubuyn esq. at a cost of £2,000, and has sittings for 500 persons: the communion plate consists of gifts by various donors from 1666 to 1747: a burial ground formed from land purchased of Major Pascoe R.A. was opened April 12th, 1829, and another, the gift of the late Rev. William Hodgson, was completed in 1890 by the erection of a stone wall, and consecrated by Dr. Wilkinson, late bishop of Truro. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1630; marriages and burials, 1599. The living is a vicarage, tithe rent-charge £400, net yearly value £323, including 8 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor.
In the vicarage grounds are two ancient granite crosses and a mên-an-tol, or holed stone: on the isthmus which unites the bold headland called “Cape Cornwall” with the adjoining hill, are the remains of an ancient chapel, known as “St. Helen’s Oratory,” and there are the ruins of another on Carn Brea. The Wesleyan chapel in Chapel street, built in 1833 at a cost of £1,500, is a building of granite with a portico supported on four columns of the Doric order: it will seat 2,000 persons. There is also a Bible Christian chapel and a Free Methodist chapel, erected in 1860, and seating 300.
The Market House, which is spacious and convenient, was built in 1840 by James Trembath esq. of Sennen. The market is held on Saturday. The Literary Institution in Chapel street, established in 1842, has a library of 400 volumes, museum and news room; science and art classes are held in connection with it and lectures are also delivered weekly throughout the winter months. The 9th Co. 1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall’s) Volunteer Artillery, Western Division Royal Artillery, and the J Co. 1st Volunteer Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry have quarters here. In the St. Just district are the Botallack mines, the workings of which are under the sea; the Wheal Owles mines, owing to the flooding of this mine on Jan 10th, 1893, are at present unworked; the Levant tin mines give employment to about 400 people; and there is also a New Balleswidden tin mine. Messrs. Cornish, Richard Boyns, of Boswedden, and others, are lords of the manor. Viscount Falmouth, Lord St. Levan, Lord Robartes, Major Ross, the trustees of John Usticke Scobell esq. the Misses Borlase of Castle Horneck, Penzance, and Mrs. Richard Hichens are chief landowners. The soil is granite; the subsoil is rab. Cape Cornwall is in this parish, one mile north-west of the town. The chief crops are barley, oats, potatoes and pasture. The area is 7,421 acres, of which 30 are water; rateable value, £13,577; the population is 1891 was 6,119.
Parish Clerk, William Merrifield.
Post, M.O. & T.O. [Money Order & Telegraph Office], S.B. [Savings Bank] & Annuity & Insurance Office. (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O.Cornwall added).—John Warren, postmaster, Bank square. Letters arrive at 9.7 a.m. & 5.20 p.m.; dispatched at 8.30 a.m. & 3.20 p.m. There is no sunday post
Wall Letter Boxes, Tregeseal, cleared at 8 a.m & 2.50 p.m.; & New Downs cleared 8.5 a.m. & 2.55 p.m
County Police Station, Chapel st. Charles Hill, sergeant, & 1 constable
Literary Institution, Chapel st. Edwin Trembath, hon. sec
Clerk to the Highway Board & Assistant Overseer, Thos. Williams, New Downs
Medical Officer St. Just District, Penzance Union, Richard Burford Searle L.R.C.P.Lond
Registrar of Births, Marriages & Deaths for St. Just, Sancreed & Morvah, Alfred Chenhalls, jun. Market street
Surveyor of Highways, William Merrifield
St. Just Church; 11 a.m. & 6.30 p.m.; & 8.30 a.m. daily
Bible Christian, Rev. Samuel Eva; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; thurs. 7 p.m
Methodist Free Church; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; daily 7.30 p.m
Wesleyan, Rev. Elijah Clapham, Rev. Matthew Hall; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; tues 7 p.m
A School Board of 7 members was formed June 30, 1875; Alfred Chenhalls, clerk to the board; Pascoe Grenfell, Bosorne, St. Just, attendance officer
Board (boys, girls & infants), built in 1877, for 730 children; average attendance, 176 boys, 173 girls & 166 infants; James Jenkin, master; Miss Lydia Williams, mistress; Miss Ellen Penrose, infants’ mistress
Kelynack (mixed), built in 1881, for 100 children; average attendance, 53; Miss Kate Redhead, mistress
Omnibusses to Penzance.—Eddy, daily, 7 & 9 a.m. & 2 & 5 p.m. returning 10.30 a.m. & 1, 6 & 9 p.m.; sundays, 7.30 a.m. returning 10.45 a.m.; A Thomas, 8.30 (mail), 9 & 10.30 a.m. & 5 p.m. returning 11.30 a.m. 4 (mail), 6.30 & 7.30 p.m
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PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Bolitho Mrs. Bosorne terrace Boyns Mrs. Hy. Lafrawda vills. Green la Boyns Mrs. Jn. Lafrawda villas, Green la Boyns Richard, Boswedden house Caudy Charles, Bosorne Chenhalls Alfred, Market street Chenhalls Mrs. Nancherrow terrace Chenhalls William, Cape-Cornwall st Clapham Rev. Elijah [Wesleyan], Green la Ellis Peter, Highfield, Tregeseal Eva Rev. Sml. [Bible Christn.], Regent ter Hill Mrs. Cravallack villa Holman John, Nancherrow vil. Tregeseal Holman Walter, Foundry house Holman William, Chapel street Jago Charles Sprague James Mrs. Chapel street James Mrs. S. H. Alma villa, Tregeseal Lawry John, Tregeseal Luty John, Bollowal Macreight Albert, Kenythorn house Millett Edwin Ley, Bosavern Nesbitt Robert Garven Oates Miss, Market street Oldrini Miss, Market square Olds Mrs. Carne house, Market street Rowe John, Lafrowda terrace Saundry Misses, Bosavern Saundry Miss, Kelynack Searle Richard Burford Thomas Misses, Bank square |
Tippet Mrs. tregeseal house Tozer Henry Edwin, Cape Cornwall ho Trahair Mrs. Chapel street Trahair Wm. The Cottage, Bosavern Trenear Miss, Cavallack villa Trezise George Edwards, Lafrowder ter Warren John, The Bank Wesley Mrs. Lafrowda terrace Williams Arthur Ernest, Bank square Williams Mrs. Chapel street COMMERCIAL. Andrewartha Thomas Hill, organist to St. Just church & insurance agent Andrewartha John, insurance agent, Carallack terrace Angwin Benjamin, shopkeeper, Fore st Angwin Benj. jun. shopkeeper, Botallack Angwin James, shopkpr. Nancherrow ter Batten, Carne & Carne’s Banking Co. Lim. (branch) (Arth. Ernest Williams, manager); draw on London & Westminster Bank Limited, London E C Bennetts Hy. Shakerley, farmer, Bostrase Bennetts Caroline (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Cribble’s hill Bennetts Thomas, farmer, Bosavern Bolitho, Williams, Foster, Coode, Grylls & Co. Lim. (Consolidated Bank of Cornwall), bankers (John Warren, manager); draw on Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, Ransom, Bouverie & Co. Lombard street, London E C |
Bolitho Margaret (Mrs.), draper & grocer, Market square Bone George, farmer, Brea Vean Botallack Mine (tin & copper) (Arthur Hodge James, purser) Boyns Bessie (Miss), organist to Wesleyan chapel Boyns Ernest, wholesale & retail grocer & wine & spirit merchant, & agen[t] for W. & A. Gilbey Limited, wine & spirit merchants; boot & shoe maker & draper, Market place Boyns Nicholas, farmer, Hendra Boyns Richard, farmer, Botrase Boyns Richard, purser of mines, Boswedden house Brokinshaw Samuel, mason, Carralack terrace Candy Charles, farmer, Bosorne Candy Edwin, grocer, Regent terrace Candy William Henry, farmer, Bosorne Casley Henry, farmer, Truthwall Casely James, farmer, Boscean Chenhalls Alfred, jun. registrar of births, marriages & deaths for St. Just Sancreed & Morvah sub-district & clerk to the school board, Fore street Chenhalls James, farmer, Bollowall Chirgwin Ralph William & Co. grocers & drapers, Bank square |
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Cornwall 1st (Duke of Cornwall’s) Volunteer Artillery, Western Division, Royal Artillery (9th Company) (Hon. Maj. Richard Thomas; R. G. Nesbitt, lieut) County Police Station (Charles Hill, sergeant), Chapel street Daniel Nicholas Charles, tinplate worker & watch maker, Fore street Davey Nancy (Mrs.), shpkpr. Nancherrow Davey William, shopkeepr. Victoria row Eddy Banjamin, apartments & ’bus proprietor, Chapel street Eddy James, farmer, Trevegean Eddy James Daniel, farmer, Kelynack Eddy Joseph, grocer, Queen street Eddy Thomas, grocer, West place Eddy William, shoe maker, Fore street Eddy William Rowe, builder, Kernidjack Ellis Ellen (Mrs.), shopkpr. Victoria row Gibson Francis & Son, crpntr. Regent ter Glasson & Son, grocers, Nancherrow ter Goninan Alfd. shopkpr. Cape-Cornwall st Grenfell Elizh. (Miss), tailoress, Chapel st Grenfell Richd. baker & grocer, Market sq Grenfell Pascoe, farmer & school attendance officer, Bosorne Grenfell Thomas, builder, Kelynack Guy Samuel, Miners’ Arms P.H. Nancherrow terrace Hall Jane (Mrs.), grocer, Market square Harvey Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Cape-Cornwall street Harvey Mary Ann (Mrs.), grocer & baker, Fore street Harvey Wm. Shakerley, frmr. Kelynack Harvey Sarah Ann (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Cape-Cornwall street Harvey Susan (Mrs.), draper, Queen st Harvey William, baker, Queen street Hattam Henry, farmer, Bosavern Hattam William, farmer, Boscregan Hocking Annie (Mrs.), Wellington family & commercial hotel; coach house & every accommodation for visitors, Market place Hocking Jane (Mrs.), grocer, Cape-Cornwall street Hocking William, farmer, Nanjulian Hocking William, grocer, Kelynack Hocking Elizh. (Mrs.), farmer, Hendra Hollo[sic] James E. shopkeeper, Church st Hollow John, farmer, Trevedra Hollow William, farmer, Bosavern Hollow William, jun. farmer, Kerrow Holman Nicholas & Sons, engineers, machinists &c. Tregeseal; & at Penzance. See advertisement Hosking Henry, farmer, Dowran Hosking Jane (Mrs.), shopkeepr. Queen st Hosking Sarah (Mrs.), news agent, Chandlers row Jago Charles Sprague, surgeon James Peter, blacksmith, Kelynack Jenkin John, farmer, Bosvargus Johns James, farmer, Numphra John James, shoe maker, Kelynack Kicks William James, artist (portrait & landscape); painting from life or photograph in oils or crayons; artists’ materials dealr. Fore St. studio |
Lawrey Thomas, shoe maker, Tregeseal Leathan Charles, farmer, Gurland Leggo John, shopkpr. Cape-Cornwall st Leggo Richard, butcher, Nancherrow ter Leggo Thomas, farmer, Nancherrow Literary Institution (Edwin Trembath, hon. sec.), Chapel street Maddern Richard, farmer, Trevegean Marks Elizabeth Jane (Mrs.), draper, Carallack terrace Marks William, mason, Carallack ter Marks William Henry, farmer, Bollowal Mason William, farmer, Brea Matthews Christiana (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Bosorne Matthews Jane (Mrs.), shopkpr. Chapel st Matthews Mrgt (Mrs.), shopkpr. Angle sq Merrifield William, surveyor of highways Mitchell Thomas, farmer, Kenidjack Murrish William, shopkeeper & lodging house, Cape-Cornwall street Nankervis Isaac, farmer, Bosorne terrace Nankervis John, greengrocer, Market sq Nankervis William, Singer’s sewing machine agent, Fore street Nesbitt Robert Garven L.K.Q.C.P.I, surgeon & physician New Balleswidden Mine (tin) (John Hollow, purser) Olds Henry, butcher, Chapel street Olds James, butcher & farmer, Fore st Olds Peter, butcher, Market square Olds William, butcher, Cape-Cornwall st Olver Frederick Nicholls, china clay manufacturer, New Balleswidden [Letters are sent direct from Penzance] Penrose Mary (Mrs.), beer retlr. Chapel st Perrow & Wallis, drapers, Fore street Phillips John, farmer, Nanquidno Reseigh Thos. coal dealer, Nancherrow hl Reseigh Thos. Hy. greengrcr. Bosorne ter Reseigh Thos. jun. shopkeeper, Fore st Richards Thos. tailor & draper, Market pl Richards William, hair dresser, Nancherrow terrace Roberts James, carpenter, Princess st Roberts Mary (Mrs.), fancy shop, Bank sq Roberts Ralph Hill, carpenter, Bank sq Roberts Richard, carpenter, New Downs Rodda Thomas, shoe ma, Boswedden ter Rowe Eliza (Mrs.), shpkpr. Nanchrw. ter Rowe Elizh. (Miss), milliner, Regent ter Rowe Elizh. (Miss), grocer, Fore street Rowe James, general ironmonger, grocer & cutler, Fore street Rowe John Penrose, grocer, Queen st Rowe Joseph, carpenter & fancy shop, Fore street Rowe Martin, grocer & draper, Cape-Cornwall street Rowe Samuel, shoe maker, Chapel st Rowe William Henry, farmer, Letcha Sampson Wm. shoe ma. Nancherrow ter St. Just Billiard Club (John Holman, sec.), Market street Searle Richard Burford L.R.C.P.Lond. surgeon, & medical officer St. Just district, Penzance union Shackerley Wm. Hy. farmer, Kelynack Semmens Mary (Mrs.), shpkpr, Botallack |
Smith Mary (Mrs.), apartments, Fore st Stephens Thomas, grocer, Lafrowda ter Stephens William John, shopkeeper & refreshment rooms, Bank square Stevens John (Mrs.), apartments, Carallack terrace Thomas Archelaus, omnibus proprietor, Bosorne terrace Thomas Henry, draper, Fore street Thomas James, blacksmith, Angle sq Thomas Jas. Hy. shoe maker, Market pl Thomas Jane (Miss), shopkpr. Fore st Thomas Jane (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Cape-Cornwall street Thomas Joseph Nichols, auctioneer, Bosorne terrace Thomas Martin, grocer, Queen street Thomas Nicholas, boot maker, Fore st Thomas Peter, shoe ma. Nancherrow hill Thomas Rd. grocer & draper, Market pl Tozer Henry Edwin, artist, Cape-Cornwall house Trahair Harry, grocer, Fore street Tregear James, farmer, Boswarlas Tregear James, farmer, Boswarlas Tregear John, farmer, Bosavern Tregear Nicholas, butcher, Fore street Trembath Edwin, grocer & photographer, Bank square Trenery George, grocer, New downs Uren James, blacksmith, Factory lane Uren Rd. shopkeeper, Cape-Cornwall st Veal Maria (Mrs.), farmer, Carallack Veal William Bolitho, Star inn, & farmer, Fore street Volunteer Battalion (1st) Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (I Co.) (Hon. Major Richard White, commander; Ernest Boyns, lieut.), Armoury, Cape-Cornwall street Warren John, manager to Bolitho, Williams, Foster, Coode, Grylls & Co. Limited (Consolidated Bank of Cornwall), bankers, The Bank Warren Thomas, farmer, Tregeseal Watters John Henry, farmer, Dowran Wearing John, chemist, Fore street Wearne Mary (Mrs.), gro. Bosorne ter Wheal Owles Mine (tin & copper) (Rd. Boyns, purser), Boswedden house White William, shoe maker, Kelynack Wilkins Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper & lodging house, Queen street Williams Arthur Ernest, manager of Batten, Carne & Carne’s Bank Williams Eliza (Mrs.), Commercial hotel, Market place Williams Elizabeth Ellen (Mrs.), shopkeeper, Queen street Williams James, grocer, New downs Williams Mary Ann (Miss), shopkeeper, Fore street Williams Nicholas, carpenter, Chapel st Williams Thomas, King’s Arms P.H. & farmer, Market place Williams Thomas, clerk to highway board & assistant overseer, New downs Williams Wm. Thos. pork dlr. Bosorne ter Woolcock Mary (Miss), shopkeeper, Cape-Cornwall street |
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