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The nunnery at Hellnowith named in several books seems to have originated in the fertile brain of the 'historian' Hals.

Tremayne is said to have been the residence of capt. Samuel Wallis who in 1766-8 sailed round the Horn, through Polynesia, and back by the Cape.

MANACCAN--Deanery of Kerrier.--The ancient name of this parish was St Mannacan in Menstre. Richard Polwhele, the topographer (1760--1838) was vicar of Manaccan.

The mineral called manaccanite was first discovered in this parish. Gold exists in the black sand that yields mannacanite, but not enough to pay for working.

The church has a beautiful early Norman south doorway, and, within, is of interest as showing in the curious arrangement of the chancel roof the change made in the position of the north wall when the transept on that side was replaced by an aisle in the 15th century.

In 1275 the church was appropriated to Glasney college.

ST. ANTHONY-IN-MENEAGE--Deanery of Kerrier.--This parish is called in the records S. Antoninus in Manahec, St Antony of Lanyntenyn by Trewotheke, and so on. Lantinny and Trewothick are estates in this parish.

As far back as the history of the parish can be traced the church was in the possession of the priory of Tywardreth, or of its mother house tho Benedictine monastery of St. Sergius and St. Bachus at Angers. We do not trace the first appropriation, but it was confirmed to Angers by archbishop Thomas à Becket, and to Tywardreth by archbishop Peckham in 1281. There is said by Tanner (Notitia Monastica) and Lysons to have been a small cell of Tywardreth priory here, and it is possible that the foundations of buildings found on Lantinny belong to it. As the property of an alien priory it was more than once in the king's hands. In 1563 the rectory was granted to the Killigrews.

The church building is beautifully situated close to the water of the Durra creek. It is an interesting building of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. The font (of diallage) is much like the old Camborne font now at Treslothan, but has suffered horn I rechiselled by an ignorant man. The inscription reads 'Ecce karissimi de Deo vero baptizabuntur spiritu sancto.'