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Parish Church of:
Crowan
The church of St. Crewena, restored and re-pewed in 1872
at a cost of upwards of £2,000 (exclusive of the chancel,
restored by the patron), is a building of granite, in the
Gothic style, with some incongruous Classic additions,
consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and an embattled western
tower, 70 feet high, with pinnacles, containing 6 bells,
rehung in 1882 at a cost of £100: the north aisle contains
several monuments to the St. Aubyn family, and also the
ancient brasses of the St. Aubyns (1400-1599), of which
engravings are given in Polwhele's "History of Cornwall":
these were in 1893 bedded in slate and replaced in the
aisle; the existing memorials range from 1629 to 1839; in
the south aisle is a memorial window to Henry Jenkin of
Kerthen, 1860; the stained east window was given by Mrs. H.
J. Molesworth-St Aubyn, in memory of her husband; another at
the end of the south aisle is a memorial to the wife of
George Hickman Johns esq. of the Indian civil service and
son of the late vicar, who died at Poonah, India, in 1876,
and J. Tremenheere Johns, also a son of a former vicar, who
was drowned at Oxford in 1855; on the exterior east wall is
a memorial to Richard Tregeare, with a quaint inscription,
1668; in 1892 a vestry and organ chamber were built by the
patron of the licing, and an organ erected by Mrs Molesworth-St
Aubyn, in memory of her father and mother; there are
sittings for about 400 persons. The register of baptisms
dates from the year 1602; marriages 1696; burials 1697.
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