THE GLEBE HOUSE (PARSONAGE)
Glebe Terrier
The Glebe Terrier was first introduced in 1571 when a list of the holdings of every parish was required. These varied greatly depending on what each clergyman decided to include and then the Terrier was collected in the Church of England Registries, but a copy was often kept in the parish. It was drawn up at the time of the Archdeacons visitation which was usually once a year.
Glebe terriers are useful historical documents as they may contain the names of tenants and the holders of adjoining lands. As the open field system comprised many narrow strips, often isolated from each other, within the larger fields, the terrier can provide useful information on the strips and furlongs in the parish. They may also contain information on how income from tithes was calculated and collected.
Hearth Tax
In 1664 the government brought in a hearth tax and according to this, the Glebe house had seven hearths. This indicates to me that there were at least three chimneys in the property.
1679 Terrier
The house has a hall, a kitchen, a dairy, two cellars, an outer kitchen and another ground room, all earthern-floored. Over these are five chambers, a closet and two small rooms “called studyes”. The walls are mostly made of stone and plastered with lime. Adjoining the house was a stable, a barn, an oxhouse, a mowhay, two small gardens, and a little orchard. Richard Dell, minister. John Crocker & Henry Doble, Churchwardens.
The earliest depiction of the Glebe House is shown in the 1690 Elerky Atlas.
I have drawn a plan of the house below but there is no way of knowing where the chambers and other rooms were or their sizes, nor where the doors or windows were exactly. For the dimensions of the building, I used the 1727 terrier and the current position of walls or old foundations. The outer walls were roughly three foot wide, consisting of an inner and an outer shell, with rubbish between.
On the 21st August 1777 the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette” announced that the Reverend John Whittaker was to take up residence in the rectory at Ruan Lanihorne.
The Rev. Whittaker was a historian and wrote a detailed history of the parish of Ruan Lanihorne. In his manuscript there is a whole chapter about the parsonage. I have below taken some of the details from his manuscript to try and build a better idea of what the Glebe house looked like and how the alterations in the 17th and 18th century affected it.
He describes the original house comprised of a hall and kitchen downstairs with a large porch and above these rooms but doesn’t say how many. It is hard to say what the apportionment of the downstairs was, but I consider that it may have been, one third kitchen and two thirds hall. The house faced East and had a large porch in the middle. Above the porch was a small room. There was a single window in the northern gable end and two sash-windows in the southern end, which would have looked out over the river. (The 1690 depiction shows one upstairs window and one downstairs window, either side of the porch and the one high up in the northern gable end). One window in the kitchen looked out into the front court and by this was the fireplace and a ladder of stairs going up to the chamber above. The Rector’s chamber was the only one to have a fireplace in it. The hall had an arched doorway of stone at the southern end, which must have opened into the orchard. There was also another arch which was the back door of the house.
The house was enclosed or fenced off from the rest of the village by a high stone wall. Inside this wall was a front court with sloping grass to the house with pear and laurel trees. On the south side was a long and low building made of clay and thatch which was used for drying hops. There was a wall between this building and the house which served as a screen to where there was an orchard. On the north side was a small building which is thought to have been a pigsty.
The outhouses were small, and one was close to the barn on the north. The old barn was the primary one of the Glebe. On the north side of the old barn was the old stable.
The following plans I have adapted from the pre 1685 plan using information from Whittaker’s manuscript and the 1727 terrier.
1685 – 1715
The house was much neglected until the Reverend Henry Dell took up residency in 1685 and started to modernise the house. He partitioned part of the hall to make a parlour and at the same time had the floor lowered and boarded over. A chimney was put into the wall and a window put either side of it. In the remaining half of the hall was the original large chimney and a high window. The door into the kitchen was near the window. Rev Dell built a small room on the south side of the house for a servant and a large square room beyond that for the reception of company. This room was very grand and consisted of two large sash-windows looking into the front court and another towards the river. Under this room he built a new kitchen and two cellars. The 1690 map from the Elerky Atlas doesn’t show these two new buildings so I would assume that they were built after the map was drawn.
Rev Dell built a new stable with a loft above.
1715 – 1745
It was not until 1715 when Reverend John Grant took up residency did more work take place. He added a wing to the behind the house which looked across the back court to the river. He lengthened the west end of the kitchen and built another chimney, making a total of three kitchen chimneys. He then added a scullery, a small beer cellar and a dairy plus larder to the extension. These were divided by a partition of rails with a window of wire in the scullery and larder. Above these rooms, he made a room for the bishop, with two sash windows and behind this room, folding doors led into a narrow room with one sash window at one end and a fireplace at the other end. This room was the bishop’s study. A small window in the middle looking west into the farmyard. A door was put in the wall to lead into the churchyard. The stairs to the bishop’s room came up by the new chimney and opened into the back court. Mr Dells reception room was converted into a bedroom and the window opening towards the river was blocked up.
Rev Grant built a new large and longer barn.
1727 Terrier
The Parsonage House is built in the form of a half Roman H. The main body is 72 ft. long and 23 ft. broad, the southern wing is 20 ft. long and 17 ft. broad, the northern wing 28 ft. long and 18 ft. broad and the whole is built with stone, and roofed with slate, both the wings were lately rebuilt. The main body comprises of four ground rooms and five chambers, the southern wing of three storeys with one room in each, the northern wing of two ground rooms and two chambers. All the rooms above and one below are floored with boards, the rest paved or earth-floored, and all except one plastered.
The out houses consist of a barn 68 ft. long and 18 ft. broad, a stable and ox house 56 ft. long and 16 ft. broad, built with cob and thatched. John Grant A. M., rector. Henry Doble & James Blamey Churchwardens.
The measurements given appear to be the internal room sizes.
1745 – 1777
The next rector was the Reverend Francis Henchman in 1745 and he restored Rev Dell’s reception room back to its original state but continued to be used as a bedroom. He paid £40 for the repair of this room where he had to repair the roof and floor which were rotten. The bishop’s study he turned into a bedroom, the western window made into a cupboard and the fireplace was walled up. He also blocked up the bishop’s door to the churchyard, making it into a closet. He built a slight room behind the house for a footman’s pantry, making it to face the bishop’s stairs and so by a connecting wall enclosed the stairs within the house. He unfortunately neglected repairs to the building, and it became decayed and dilapidated.
It is believed that the trees in the orchard were cut down by him.
1777 – 1809
In 1777 the Reverend John Whittaker took up residence in the house and started on many improvements. He lowered the hall floor down to the same level as the parlour but in doing this, part of the front wall came down. The whole wall was then taken down from the porch to Mr Grants chimney. He turned the hall into a second parlour with a lobby between it and the original parlour. The original parlour was changed to a study/parlour and the chimney made smaller. He put in a new door and windows. The great chimney was removed from the hall and a couple of sash-windows installed. Part of the lobby went through Rev. Henchman’s pantry. The door to the kitchen was then put in at the end of Rev Grants kitchen extension and this door lead out into the back court. The beer cellar he added to the scullery and a new dairy was built in the back court. The reason for building a new dairy was because the old dairy smelt due to its position in the Meridian sun. He blocked up the original kitchen chimney. The chamber above the original kitchen was given new walls, floors, windows and reroofed. Two sash windows were installed, and a doorway made from it to the bishop’s stairs. Reverend Dells new kitchen had a problem with the south-western corner, and he had the window there filled in to help with stability. The blocked-up window in Rev. Dell’s reception room was reopened, enlarged, and turned into a bow window. The kitchen below was added to the cellars. The churchyard was very close to the walls, causing considerable damp, so he got the bank to the churchyard taken down by two or three feet from the walls of the house. He took down the high wall of the front court, so the sun could enter and replaced it with a small wall with palisades. He lowered the ground in the front court to make it level with the house and at the same time made a small garden. The adjoining waste ground (originally the orchard) he also made into a garden, and this was then joined with the small garden in the front court making one large garden.
In 1782 Rev Whittaker took down the old barn and old stable and rebuilt them into a grander building with a small room for the pigs. He took down the dry house in the front court and the wall on the southern side.
1794 Terrier
There is a good parsonage house, slated with a front and side garden to it, a back court with a corn chamber, wool chamber, brewhouse and a dairy. Also, a poultry court, a long barn (thatched), a farm stable, a house stable, a pigs-house and an oxen house, all thatched, with a room above the brewhouse called a tool chamber. Lofts for hay above the pigs-house, house stable and farm stable. A garden called Little garden, another called Sawpit garden and a third called Cliff garden. A farmyard, mowhay, and a dove house.
John Whittaker Rector. Henry Trethewey and John Hains Churchwardens
1809
In 1809 the Reverend Richard Budd took up residency and was probably the last rector to live in this house, but it is possible that the Reverend Henry Slight who became rector in 1849 may have lived in part of the house until the new rectory was ready.
1842 Tithe Map
The above tithe map shows a shape very close to what I have been able to produce from Whittaker’s descriptions. However there appears to be an extra extension to the West wing which I guess the Reverend Budd must have added sometime between 1809 and 1842. There is no way of telling whether it was one or two stories high, but I am guessing it was two.
30th March 1849 Royal Cornwall Gazette
HOUSHOLD FURNITURE
MR. TIPPET Has been favoured with instructions to SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION, on Monday, the 16th of April next, and following days, at Eleven o’clock in the Forenoon of each day, at the RECTORY, Ruanlanyhorne, the following HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and other effects, The property of the late Rev. Richard Budd, deceased, viz,: Mahogany Four-post and other Bedsteads, excellent seasoned Feather Beds, Mahogany and other Chests of Drawers, Washstands, Toilette Glasses, Toilette Sets, Night Commodes, Mahogany Dining, Loo,and other Tables, Mahogany and other Chairs, Carpets, Hearth Rugs, Fenders, Fire Irons, Snuffers and Trays, Dinner service about 120 pieces, a quantity of earthenware, Glass, and China,
TWO SERAPHINES, PIANO FORTE, Copper Furnace and Brass Tap, Iron Furnace, Kitchen Apparatus, Kitchen, Culinary, Dairy, and Brewing Requisites in every variety, a few Paintings, Limner’s Materials, several volumes of Books, and a Cask of Cider. Also, a four wheeled Carriage, excellent Carriage Horse, Pony, several Saddles, Bridles, and Harnesses, three prime Milch Cows, two heifers (one in Calf), Labour Horse, several Pigs, part of two Stacks of Hay, a quantity of Carrots and Mangle Wurtzel, four-wheeled Waggon, two Carts, Corn Chest, a quantity of Iron Hurdles, Ploughs, Harrows, Tormentor, Scuffler, Breeching, Winnowing Machine, Chaff Cutter, and other Husbandry and Garden Implements.
And also, a quantity of Elm and Ash Timber, Poles, Billet, Faggots, and Fir Wood, and miscellaneous articles. The Farm Stock and Timber will be Sold on the second day of the Sale; and the whole may be viewed on the Saturday prior thereto.
For further particulars, application may be made at the office of the AUCTIONEER, Pyder Street, Truro.
Dated March 16, 1849.
13th July 1849 Royal Cornwall Gazette
TO BE LET BY TENDER, at a yearly rent, but with a fair prospect of a long holding, and with immediate possession, all that DESIRABLE ESTATE, consisting of the GLEBE LAND of Ruan Lanihorne, and Farm Buildings attached. Sufficient of the Glebe House may be had at present for a Farm Residence, with a prospect of the whole if required.
The ESTATE consists of about 90 statute Acres of good and productive Land, and is very conveniently situated for Water-carriage either to Truro or Falmouth.
Ore-weed, Sand, and Lime may be had close at hand. The land is Tithe Free.
The Tenant will be expected as usual to keep the Buildings &c, in repair, to pay rates and Land Tax, and all Outgoings.
Tenders to be sent in on or before Friday, the 20th day of July, addressed to Messrs. CARLYON & PAULL, Solicitors, Truro. Dated 27th June, 1849.
The above newspaper articles show that it was intended to rent out the Glebe house.
In the 1861 census the Glebe House is listed as the Old Parsonage and Reverend Slight is living in the Rectory. The old Parsonage had three different families living in it.
Henry and Philippa Nankivell plus their son William Henry.
James and Elizabeth Merrifield with their children, Charles, Edward and Elizabeth J.
Peter and Mary A Coulam with their children William W and Mary J.
OS Survey published 1880
This map drawn in 1878 shows that the original building between the old kitchen and Reverend Dell’s kitchen has mostly disappeared and the 1809-1842 West wing extension has been extended to the same width as the rest of the building. The brew house and dairy have also gone. I believe that the part of the building facing south towards Reverend Dell’s kitchen was the pantry. There is a small building between which later was used as a privy. I think that it is possible that it was in this period that a chimney was put in the end of the West wing (latest addition) and another brick-built chimney in the South wall of the old kitchen plus a small window upstairs. It’s hard to tell from the 1893-98 postcard but it looks like there may have also been either another window or door in the downstairs as well.
In 1893 part of the front court to the Glebe house was taken away and turned into a new churchyard. A new wall was built to the front of the house.
The Glebe House 1893 to 1898 taken from a postcard.
1907 OS map. This shows the house as the same as 1878.
The Glebe House 1930-1940 taken from a postcard.
Glebe House 1930 – 1940 looking from the east end, showing the chimneys.
From May 1945 until May 1952, Miss F Mitchell was renting the Glebe Cottage (Dell’s room)
The Glebe House 1950’s taken from a postcard.
In the 1940s, 50s and 60s the Wasley/Davey family lived in Glebe house.
The Glebe House 1950’s
The Glebe House 1950’s
In 1969 the Glebe House is sold to Mrs Pamela Martin and she started to repair and modernise the building.
1969/70 before the renovations were made.
1970 Dells kitchen/reception is reduced to rubble.
A new roof and a couple of windows are put in.
Part of the front wall has been completely rebuilt. The window that had been blocked up has been opened again. A new French door replaces one of the windows and new paned doors replace the old green ones.
The chimney that had been in the small building (Henchmans pantry) has been removed.
1970’s
Glebe House 1980’s
In 1985 the house was grade II listed with the below description.
Parsonage house (now private house), C17 or earlier with some late C18 and C20 rebuilding. Slatestone with concrete pantile gable roof and lateral brick and stone stacks. 3 room plan with single storey wing to front. 2 storeys. Irregular 6 window front. Ground floor is window, French window, window, French windows, wing and blind to right of wing. Left 2 bays have cambered brick arches and projecting keystones. Windows are 18- and 12-pane sashes. Brick fireplace blocked to left of brick lateral stack showing wing has been reduced. Buttress to far right may be evidence for further wing no longer existing. Rear has external stone lateral stack and projection which may be lateral chimney breast. Interior has wide hearth and bread oven, bowtell moulded beams and straight flight stair with panelled dado (probably early C18). This was the home of historian and writer the Rev.John Whitaker from 1777 until his death in 1808. In his The History of Ruan Lanihorne he describes the house, its alterations and previous incumbents in great detail. Henry Dell, vicar from 1643, built a room to the south described thus: ‘It is one of the best rooms in any parsonage-house of the whole county, for the largeness, the loftiness and the regularity of it. It has a ceiling handsomely coved, and is 19 feet by 18 feet 6 inches…..’. Extracts from The History of Ruan Lanihorne by the Rev. John Whitaker (1784), Edited by H L Douch, Journal of Royal Institution of Cornwall
The below was written in 1989 by Pamela Martin a former owner for a church exhibition.
Records show that the site of the present house and buildings was utilised for the Rector and his hind (manager of the Glebe) even in medieval times when the lords of the manor occupied the castle. Some of the walls of the early dwelling are still incorporated in the present house and it is, therefore, the oldest residential building in the village nucleus occupied continuously (although altered many times) for several hundred years. What remains today is only the rear of the house and approximately half of that which existed during the time of the well-known historian, the Rev John Whittaker in about 1780. Many local people will remember the cottage standing in the garden of the Glebe and this was, in fact, part of the original house. Sadly the cottage was unsafe and demolished in 1970.
The Glebe is currently owned by Mr Philip Martin, son of Pamela Martin.
This shows the chimney that Reverend Grant built when he added the west wing which is now the back of the property and is one of the oldest parts still standing. The oldest bit, is the back wall of the original building by the side of the bishop’s stairs inside the house.
2024
2024 – The patio is part of the original floor of Dell’s kitchen
2024
THE OLD RECTORY
The Old Rectory was in fact the new rectory built in approximately 1850 to replace the Glebe house. The first rector to take up residency in this property was the Reverend Henry Spencer Slight.
13th December 1850 Royal Cornwall Gazette
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE
RUAN LANYHORNE. – On Sunday last the 8th inst., the Rectory of Ruanlanyhorne, the residence of the Rev. H. S. Slight, was broken into; and several articles, among others a pocket silver communion service, repeater watch, and two £5 Cornish Bank notes, were stolen. The robbers must have entered the house during the time of divine service, whilst the rector and his servants were at church.
28th March 1851 Royal Cornwall Gazette
NEW PARSONAGES AND SCHOOLS
Ruanlanihorne, Cornwall. – Mr. White has very successfully worked out this design, already noticed in our pages. One might almost mistake the perspective we have seen of it for an old building; it is so irregular and picturesque. We have some fears that this might, in reality, appear exaggerated.
Old Rectory by Anthony Jennings
The Old Rectory at Ruan Lanihorne is by William White, around 1850. It is less restrained than his usual style, in ecclesiastical Gothic manner, with eccentric exposed trusses at the gable ends, and wilfully asymmetric windows which seem to look back to the Gothic of earlier days.
In 1877 the Reverend William Hinton Drake took up residency.
1880 OS map
The list below shows the incumbents after him to 1913.
1882 John Thomas Hyde
1892 Lewis Morgan Peter
1895 Thomas Major Dunn
1913 Hubert Epaphroditus
1915 Land Valuation map.
Old Rectory 1930’s
In 1937 Reverend Ernest Victor Dunn became rector and the following list shows the rectors up until it was sold.
1940 Percy Edward Henthorn Stott
1946 Robert Owen Mossop
1950 William John Norman.
1952 William Leeming who died two years after becoming rector and then the place stayed empty for about five years before it was sold.
I believe it was sold in the early 1960’s to William Charles and Cecily Grace Juleff. They ran it as a guest house.
Old Rectory 1980’s
On the 12th January 1983 a planning application was put in by Mr G J Saxty to change the private dwelling to a guesthouse. Owners from 1986 were Garson John and Angela I Saxty
The rectory was grade II listed on the 27th November 1985 with the below description.
Rectory (now private house) 1850. By William White. Slate rubble with granite dressings and scantle slate and dry slate roofs and axial and lateral rubble stone stacks with bands. Gothic style with deliberately irregular plan and elevations creating romantic silhouette. 2 storeys. Stucco south-west. 3 window front has pair of trefoil headed 2-light mullions with transoms to left bay; flat-headed 4- light shouldered headed mullion to middle bay; 5-light trefoil headed to right under 2-centred shallow arch and 3-light trefoil head windows to first floor under steep gables smaller to middle and with hammer beam external truss to left gable. Windows are granite mostly with plaster hoodmoulds. Granite windows to other fronts are without hoodmoulds and have varied details including 2-light one with quatrefoil over to entrance front. Bell cote to gable of south-east single storey wing. Interior has much original detail including corbelled and arched granite fireplace to west room, stair with octagonal baluster granite 2-centred (springing from 2 levels) arch in vestibule and exposed sash weights.
Old rectory sometime between 1980 and 2008.
In March 1999 the Old Rectory was sold for £305,000 to Ashley Maxiwell Grant Warden and his wife Elizabeth B Warden. They moved in with their two boys, Maximilian and Hunter and daughter India. In May of that year, they put in a planning application for renovation and repairs, also replacing conservatory on existing footprint and putting skylights in the roof space.
Photograph used in 2008 by the estate agents.
In 2008 it was put on the market with a guide price of £2 million and sold eleven days later to Kristopher M Allerfeldt and his wife Raphaela M Allerfeldt. They moved in with their daughters, Frederika (Freddy) and Matilda. In March 2009 they put in a planning application to erect in the grounds, a garage, boiler room, stables and tack room.
In March 2014 the Old Rectory was sold for £1,985,000 to Mike and Amanda Wombwell.
Back view of The Old Rectory 2015
In 2022 a planning application was put in for various alterations. The below plans give an idea of how big the place is. There are also basement and attic rooms.
Ground Floor Plan
First Floor plan
2024 Mike and Amanda live here with their son George.
Celtic Cross 2015
A small weathered Celtic cross, said to have been found in a hedge is now in the garden. It is referred to in the 1920’s by Henderson and there is a photograph of the Reverend Mossop and his wife with it in the late 1940’s.
In 1985 the cross became listed. The description was as follows: –
Cross approximately 10 metres North of old parsonage. Preaching or wayside cross re-sited in former vicarage garden. Probably medieval. Granite monolith with rounded shaft and arms.
Since it was listed it has been moved to another part of the garden.
GLEBE LANDS
The glebe was also known as church furlong, rectory manor or parson’s close. It is an area of land within a church parish used to support a parish priest. The land may be owned by the church, or its profits may be reserved to the church. The glebe lands were either cultivated by the clergyman himself, or by tenants to whom he leased the land. In those cases where the parsonage was not well-endowed with glebe, the clergyman’s main source of income would come from the tithes.
The glebe was associated with the Church of England and ceased to belong to individual incumbents as from 1 April 1978, by virtue of the Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976. After this date it became vested, “without any conveyance or other assurance”, in the Diocesan Board of Finance of the Diocese to which the benefice owning the glebe belonged, even if the glebe was in another diocese.
1679 Terrier
The Glebe lands consisted of pasture, arable land and barren moor which was about one hundred acres. The several closes of land are commonly known and called, Parkenapple, Soles Close, the Great Meadow, the Little Meadow, Culvor Close, Butt Close, Trigiagoe, Drie Close and Broom Close, with a copse adjoining and two small moors. They are bounded on the west and southwest by a creek from Falmouth Harbour, and on other sides by the highway.
Ruan Lanihorne according to the 1690 Elerky Atlas had 97 acres which supported the priest.
The below map drawn from the 1690 Elerky Map shows the glebe land at Ruan Lanihorne.
It was comprised of eleven fields and a large, wooded area.
1727 Terrier
The Glebe lands are 102 acres, two quarters and 8 perches. A coppice wood of 24 acres. 1 quarter and 4 perches, the Park Apple is 17 acres, 1 quarter, 35 perches, the Broom Park 14 acres, 12 perches, the Sawls Close 5 acres, 2 quarters, 8 perches, the Great Meadow 7 acres, 2 quarters, 28 perches, the Culver Close 6 acres, 23 perches, the Dry Close 6 acres, 1 quarter, 33 perches, the Butt Close 10 acres, 3 quarters, 39 perches, the Little Meadow 1 acre, 21 perches, the Trig-Jagoe 7 acres, 12 perches, the Moor 3 quarters, 26 perches, the Townplace, orchard etc. 3 quarters, 7 perches. All bounded by the highway on the south and southeast, except a small hop-garden bounded by a house and orchard leased by Sir John Hobart to Prudence Pentecost. The sea at high water mark bounds the north and northwest and a field called Bosawna on the west. On the Glebe two garden houses and a small tenement 16 ft. long and 12 ft. broad. The homestall is fenced round by a stone hedge, save a part which is walled.
1794 Terrier
Four hop gardens, called Jobs, Wilderness, Orchard, Sawls Close moor and Parkapple moor. An orchard of about one acre and a small meadow called Culver meadow, near the farmyard. The following fields, Culver Close about seven acres, Butt Close fourteen acres, Trigjago eight acres, Great meadow (including what was once called Little meadow) nine acres, Sawls Close six acres and Park-apple twenty acres, with a wood called Ruan Wood about twenty nine acres. All running from the lane in front or on the east of the parsonage house, westward along the channel of a brook which comes from the mill on the east, till the brook falls into the river Fal on the west, then turning up along the channel of the said river Fal, northwards up as far as the northern track or hedge of Parkapple field, then turning eastward along the outer side of the hedge up to the turnpike road from Tregony and then going along the road southward to the churchyard and parsonage house, except a small house and garden in the road before you reach the churchyard, now possessed by Roger Richards, publican and believed to have been alienated from the Glebe lands by the late Rev. Dell on the marriage of a maid servant of his clerk Pentecost.
The marriage of the maid, Prudence, took place in December 1700 and the publican, Roger Richards died shortly after the 1794 Terrier was made. The area referred to above, is the current property known as Barn Cotttage.
In 1849/50 part of the Great Meadow was used for the construction of a new parsonage.
On the 7th January 1952, Victor George Wasley leased 3.687 acres, field numbers 92, 93, 94, and 94a for £10 a year. He died in 1966.
In September 1968 Mr T. B. Wasley quit the Glebe and an advert appeared in the West Briton for the sale of living and dead farm stock. He had carried on the lease from his father.
The Glebe Lands continued to provide a living for the priest until 1976 when the law changed, and they became the property of the Diocesan Board of Finance. Ruan Lanihorne at that time no longer had any parsonage house and the Rector lived at Veryan.
The next person to lease the Glebe lands was John Richards and then William (Bill) Kendall.
The Moore, Little Meadow and Bowlin Green were sold to Phillip Martin and he currently leases the remaining Glebe land. Part of The Great Meadow was sold and is now owned by the owners of the Old Rectory.
The above map shows what fields (orange) are still owned by the church and make up the Glebe Land.
The field known as The Moore contains an ancient well, known as St Rumon’s well and The Bowlin Green is currently being restored to a walled garden.