Bishop Tanner, in his Notitia Monastica, says,
Karentoc or Crantoc, near Padstow, in the deanery of Pider. Here were
secular canons in the time of St. Edward the Confessor, who continued
till the general dissolution, when its yearly revenues were valued at
89_l._ 15_s._ 8_d._ which were divided amongst the dean, nine
prebendaries, and four vicars choral. The collegiate church was
dedicated to St. Carantocus, said to be a disciple of St. Patrick, and
was in the patronage of the Bishop of Exeter.
Doctor Tanner quotes the following extract from Prynne, vol. II. p.
736, (probably from his Records:) Many grants of the deanery and
prebends here by the king appear upon the rolls, but seem to be made
during the vacancy of the see of Exeter.
Anno Dom. 1315, Feb. 22, Walterus episcopus Exon. contulit Joanni de
Sandale, cancellario regis, Præbendam in ecclesia St. Karentoci. See
Wharton’s Historia de Episcopis et Decanis Londinensibus, necnon de
Episcopis et Decanis Assavensibus a prima sedis utriusque fundatione,
ad annum MDXL.
This parish measures 2490 statute acres.
The annual value of Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._
returned to Parliament in 1815 3244 0 0
Poor Rate in 1831 265 3 0
Population, { in 1801, | in 1811, | in 1821, | in 1831,
{ 299 | 358 | 389 | 458;
giving an increase of 53 per cent in 30 years.
Parish Feast, the nearest Sunday to the 16th of May.
Vicar, the Rev. C. H. Paynter, instituted 1809.