Description
Eval, St, a parish in Cornwall, on the coast, 4 1/2 miles N by NW of St Columb Major, and 8 from St Columb Road station on the G.W.R. Post town, Stissey. Acreage, 2916; population, 245. Trethewell was the seat of the Nanfans. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; value, £155. Patron, the Bishop of Truro. The church is a very ancient one, the north wall of the nave having a window of the Saxon period. The chancel was lengthened in 1324. In the 16th century the church was restored and enlarged by the addition of a S aisle. The old tower fell in 1700, and was rebuilt in 1727, the British merchants contributing liberally towards the restoration, it being a valuable landmark ' to mariners. There is a dissenting chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
