Description and Inventory of the Parsonage, Glebe and Utensils of the Phillack Parish Church compiled by the Rector, Wm Hockin in 1809
This Terrier made according to the direction of the Right Revd Father in God George by Divine permission Ld. Bp. of Exeter. A counterpart of which according to his Lordship’s order was delivered to the Archdeacon’s Register at the Visitation Court held at Penzance May 10, 1809.
1st Direction - The Parsonage house is built with stone and slag and covered with slate. On the left hand of the front door is a large dining room 21 ft long by 16 broad. The passage is floored with cut blue stone from Godrevy and the walls stuccoed with yellow sand. Opposite to the dining room on the right hand of the passage is a drawing room 18 ft long by 14 broad – on the same side is a small breakfast parlour & under these two latter there are two underground cellars. There is a good kitchen & within the kitchen a servant’s pantry, a back kitchen with a pump in it & within the back kitchen there is a dairy pantry. There are two staircases. Above stairs are six bed chambers, a large nursery, a laundry & an apple closet. In the back court at the end of the kitchen is a large outhouse twelve ft square & over it a corn chamber built with stone & covered with slate. Adjoining this & against the back court wall are three small poultry houses & a coal house built with slag & covered with slate. On the right side of the door of the fore court is a stable built with stone & cob & covered with thatch. Under the western of this stable is a pigs court half of which belongs to the Rector & half to Wm. Hockin ssn. clk. who purchased the freehold of this half from Mrs. Ann Webster. The Parsonage right on the left hand side of the front door to the church is bounded by a slag wall both sides of which belong to the Rector. On the north side of the Parsonage house is a homestall thirty six yards in length and thirteen yards broad fenced round with a stone hedge and a gate at the entrance of it from the east. At the western end of the homestall is a barn and an outhouse called the Coach House both built with stone and covered with slate. On the south side of the Parsonage house are two gardens – the Higher & the Lower fenced with a stone hedge and a gate both sides of which are made by the Rector who claims six feet without them. On the east side of the Parsonage house is a small piece of land between the two roads leading to the front gates inclosed by the stone hedge in the shape of an egg which belongs to the Rector as do the flame trees under the hedge of the little meadow or close called Creggan Geggan which bound the right on the North & Lemon Co. the lords of this little meadow or close.
2nd. The Glebe consists of three acres of almost a quarter of ground. The higher St. Terry is one acre & half of eight lace. It is bounded on the east with the highway on the west & south with the lands of Mrs. Ann Webster on the north with the Commons. The lower St Terry is one acre and twenty nine laces bounded on the east with the highway, on the south with the River Hayle which runs midway between Ventonleague & the bottom of Lethlean Lane & is crossed by a timber bridge, on the north with the lands of Mrs. Ann Webster, on the west with the lands of the Cornish Copper Company & Mrs. Ann Webster. On the wasterel of the lower St. Terry to the south there are seven cottages built on ‘Leases of Three Lives’ by the following owners – Abm. Richards, Jos. Buzzo, Jas. Hawk, Richd. Matthews, Jno Millwood, Jno Blewett & Chas. Hockin. Between Jno. Blewett’s and Chas. Hockin’s houses there is a smith shop which is now in the domain of the Rector. The Parsonage Stitch contains nineteen lace, it lies between Mrs. A. Webster’s & the Cornish Copper Company land, divided from Mrs. A. Webster’s land by a hedge, from the Cornish Copper Company land by a high ridge of earth that serves as an landmark. Kinekernel is fifty three lace, bounded on the west with the lands of the Cornish Copper Company lately Lord Arundell’s, on the south with the lands of Edw. Bawden, on the east with the lands of Wm. Hockin ssn. clk. & Lemon & Co., on the north with the lands of Robt. Hoblyn clerk & E. Bawden. The Rector makes the hedges on both sides round the St. Terry’s & hath the right in the Commons which my predecessors have always claimed to be fourscore acres.
3. There are no pensions, augmentations, gifts or bequests made to the Church or Minister, neither is there and pension payable out of the Living.
4. The Surplice Fees for offerings are two pence for all married persons widowers and widows, one penny for young & unmarried persons, for marriages five shillings, for funerals half a crown, for churchings one shilling.
5. All manner of Tythes are due in kind; so are Tythes of fish.
6. We have two Books of Common Prayer, a Bible of the largest volume, a Book of Offices, the Books of Homilies, a Font of stone, a decent Communion Table well railed, a carpet of purple broad cloth to cover it in time of divine service & a fair linen cloth an the time of the Ministration; we have three bells & all the utensils required by the Canons. We have one Communion Cup or Chalice of silver which weighs with the cover about twenty ounces. The cup and cover have each an ‘viz Phillack 1740’ & a Paton of silver which weighs about six ounce & half with this inscription ‘Anna Collins dedit 1726’ & likewise a large chest to hold the Church Utensils. We have a large vestry room with a stable under it built with slag & covered with slate (by the Parish) in the year subsequent to the consecration of the new or eastern part of the church yard which took place in 1805.
7. We have no lands or money in stock for the repair of the church or utensils.
8. The Rector is charged with the repair of his chancel, the owners of Bodriggie with the repair of the Bodriggie Aisle, the parishioners with the repair of all other parts of the church, vestry room & stable, & church yard fence.
9. The Clerk’s wages are four pounds & ten shillings which are paid by the Church Wardens. He is appointed by the Rector. The Sexton’s wages are two pounds & twelve shillings paid him by the Church Wardens. He is appointed by the Rector. The Clerk was antiently paid four shillings per annum by the owners of Bodriggie. He collected it himself. The Sexton was likewise paid two shillings & collected it himself.
The document was signed by the following
Substantial Inhabitants:
Richd. Nicholls Wm Hockin Rector
William Stevens
William Stevens Jnr Church Wardens:
Jos. Rosewarn Richd Rosewarn
Wm. Jacka Thomas Bowden
Beneath these signatures, an addendum was added in 1857 by the then Rector, Frederick Hockin.
The abovementioned plate was replaced by the present flagon Paton and Chalice (the last jewelled) in the year 1857 which were used for the first time on the 12th May of that year when the Church, having been rebuilt from the foundations and enlarged, was consecrated by Henry Phillpotts Lord Bishop of Exeter.
The total cost (exclusive of the painted windows which were gifts) of the rebuilding was £2233 which included £100, the cost of the piece of land added to the churchyard and (as a free gift from the Rector) and now partly covered by the Lychgate and western entrance. A large cottage containing four dwellings previously stood on this site.
Of the above sum, the parish undertook to raise by an annual church rate £400. They actually did raise £300.
Church Building Societies £ 190. 0
Landowners 94. 4
Friends & parishioners 188.16
The Rector & his family 1460. 0
£2233. 0
Frederick Hockin Rector