Description
Cornelly, a parish in Cornwall, 1 1/2 mile WNW of Tregony, and 2 1/2 miles SSW of Grampound Road station on the G.W.R. Post town, Tregony, under Grampound ; telegraph office, Grampound Road. Acreage, 1368 ; population. 84. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; value, £39. Patron, the Vicar of Probus. The church is good.
Parish Church
St Cornelly or St Cornelius, is an exquisite little church just down the road from Tregony. It was originally built in the 13th century, restored by Piers St Aubyn in 1866, and has been closely connected with the Gregor family since the rich Truro merchant, John Gregor, purchased the nearby Trewarthenick estate in 1640. The Gregor family spent vast sums of money on the church over the next 300 or so years.
