MEVAGISSEY, a parish in the eastern division of
the hundred of POWDER, county of CORNWALL, 6 miles
(E. S. E.) from Grampound, containing 2450 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's
books at £6. 4. 2., and in the patronage of the Earl of
Mount-Edgcumbe. The church is dedicated to St.
Mevan and St. Issi, whence the name of the parish.
There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan
Methodists. This parish borders on a bay of the
same name in the Engh'sh channel.