LEVAN (ST.), a parish in the hundred of PENWITH,
county of CORNWALL, 9 miles (S. W.) from Penzance,
containing 490 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the
Rector of St. Burian. Overhanging the sea, at the western
extremity of the parish, are the celebrated rocks,
or lofty piles of granite, called Castle Treryn, on the
pointed summit of one of which the remarkable block,
termed the Logan, or Rocking Stone, supposed to weigh
about ninety tons, is so nicely balanced, as to be moved
to and fro by a single individual. In 1820, though
considered almost the greatest curiosity in Cornwall,
some sailors dislodged this immense mass, and precipitated
it into the abyss below; but this mischievous
act exciting a general feeling of indignation
throughout the country, steps were shortly afterwards
successfully taken to replace it in its old position.
There are a well, called St. Levan's, and an ancient
oratory in the parish.