In the north chancel is the altar-tomb of Prior Vivian, the inscription on which has been inserted in page 76. The tomb was repaired, and placed between two pillars of the chancel, in 1819, by the late Sir Vyell Vyvyan, of Trelowarren.
The very splendid organ was given, in the year 1775, by Mr. James Laroche and Mr. George Hunt, at that time Members for the town.
Mr. Wallis enters into a very minute detail of particulars highly interesting to the immediate neighbourhood, but which would occupy too much space in a general parochial history of Cornwall.
The carving in the church is indeed greatly admired, but a large part of that admiration is excited by the appropriate and judicious manner in which it has been rendered ornamental by the present vicar.
The inscriptions on various monuments are noticed by Lysons, and other writers.
But a splendid addition has been recently made to the decorations of the church by Lord De Dunstanville, on his retiring from the office of recorder in the corporation. The large east window of the chancel is entirely filled with painted glass, and the middle part contains a well-drawn representation of the Ascension.
Bodmin parish contains 5279 statute acres. Annual value of the Real Property, as £. _s._ _d._ returned to Parliament in 1815: The Town 7784 The Parish 3077 ―――― 10,861 0 0 Poor Rate in 1831: The Town 1012 0 The Parish 318 10 1330 10 0
Population, in 1801: | in 1811: | in 1821: | in 1831: The Town 1951 | 2050 | 2902 | 3375. The Parish 348 | 383 | 376 | 407. ―――――― ―――――――― ―――――― ―――――― Total 2299 2383 3278 3782 Increase on a hundred in 30 years, sixty-four and a half per cent.
Dr. Boase says of the Geology: the town of Bodmin is about midway between two insulated groups of granite, and it is principally built of a stone quarried on the spot, and which well deserves the attention of geologists. This rock in the deeper parts of the quarry becomes more blue; but its common appearance presents various shades of drab or fawn colour, with irregular spots of an ochreous yellow. It breaks into thick laminæ, or slabs, which are traversed by parallel joints; so that, with care, this stone may be obtained in oblong quadrangular masses. It is soft; sometimes so much so as to lose its cohesion. The substance appears to be almost entirely argillaceous.