EVAL (ST.), a parish in the hundred of PYDER,
county of CORNWALL, 5 miles (N.W. by N.) from St.
Columb Major, containing 323 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage
of the Bishop of Exeter, rated in the king's books at
£6. 13. 4. The church is dedicated to St. Eval: the
tower having fallen, it was rebuilt from the foundation,
and finished in 1727: the expense, nearly £400, was defrayed
by contributions, including a donation from the
merchants of Bristol, to whose vessels it serves as a conspicuous
land-mark. The parish lies on the shore of the
Bristol channel.