St Thomas the Apostle, Cornwall
Historical Description
Thomas the Apostle, St, a parish, with St Thomas Street hamlet, in Cornwall, within Launceston borough, and a quarter of a mile from Launceston stations on the G.W.R. and S.W.R. Post town, Launceston. Acreage, 2091; population of the civil parish, 352; of the ecclesiastical, 1276. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Truro; gross value, £150. The church occupies the site of a canonry founded in 1126 by Bishop Warlewast. There are a mission church and Wesleyan, Methodist Free, Bible Christian, and Baptist chapels.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Cornwall | |
Hundred | East | |
Poor Law union | Launceston |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for St Thomas the Apostle from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Thomas, St., the Apostle)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Cornwall papers online:
- Royal Cornwall Gazette
- Cornishman
- West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser
- Lake's Falmouth Packet and Cornwall Advertiser
Visitations Heraldic
We have a copy of The Visitations of Cornwall, by Lieut.-Col. J.L. Vivian online.