Advent is situate in the hundred of Les-newith, i. e. new breadth,
extent, or division.[2] It hath upon the north Lantegles; east, Altar
Nun and St. Cloather; south, Brewer; west, Michaelstow. In the
Domesday (Roll or) Tax, 2d of Will. I. 1068, this district was rated
either under the names of Tegleston or Helleston, manors contiguous
therewith.
For the modern appellations of this parish, they were taken from the
church after its erection and consecration (which goes in presentation
and consolidation with Lanteglos), and is called Advent, from Advent
Sunday, (on which probably it was consecrated and dedicated to God, in
the name of St. Anne, by the Bishop of Exon,) viz. the nearest to the
feast of St. Andrew, and refers to the coming of Christ,――Advent pro
adveniant, coming.
This church is consolidated in Lanteglos, and goes in presentation
with it; the patronage in the Duke of Cornwall, who endowed it.[3]
This parish of Advent alias St. Anne was rated at the 4_s._ per pound
land tax,[4] ann. Dom. 1696; at which time the author of this work,
with other commissioners at Bodmin, settled the respective charges or
sums upon all the parishes or towns in Cornwall for all future ages.