St Gluvias, Cornwall

Description
Gluvias, St, a parish in Cornwall. The church stands near the upper end of a branch of Falmouth harbour, one-fourth of a mile E by N of Penryn town, and 1 mile from Penryn railway station, appears to have been an endowed church before the Conquest, and figures in Domesday book. The parish includes most of the town of Penryn. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Penryn. Acreage, 2549 ; population of the civil parish, 991; of the ecclesiastical; 4247. The rocks include granite and felspar, and yield oxide of iron. Enys has belonged to the family of Enys since the time of Edward I., and is famed for its fine gardens. Bohelland or Bailland Barn, about half a mile N of the church, was the scene of the murder which formed the plot of Lillo's play, called "the Penryn Tragedy," a title changed by Coleman into " Fatal Curiosity." Roscrow was the seat of the Pendarves family. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Budock and the chapelry of Penryn, in the diocese of Truro ; value, £300 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Truro. The church is large and handsome, and contains monuments of the Pendarves family. It was thoroughly restored in 1883. A collegiate church anciently stood at Glaseney, but has disappeared. There is a Wesleyan chapel, and others.