LANIVET, a parish in the hundred of PYDER,
county of CORNWALL, 2 miles (S. W.) from Bodmin,
containing 803 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Cornwall, and diocese of Exeter,
rated in the king's books at £24. The Rev. William
Phillipps was patron in 1817. There is a place of
worship forWesleyan Methodists. About a quarter of
a mile from the church are considerable remains of a
Benedictine monastery, called St. Bene't's, and supposed
to have been a nunnery subordinate to some foreign
house. There are certain lands, part of its former
possessions, in this and other parishes, producing an
income of about £110 per annum, vested in twelve
feoffees, for the maintenance of poor persons in an ancient
almshouse, with a charity school under the same roof,
the master of which has a salary of £ 8, and a rentfree
residence.