Week St Mary

"WEEK ST. MARY, a parish in the hundred of Stratton, county Cornwall, 7 miles S. from Stratton, its post town, and 10 from Launceston. This place, which was formerly of more importance than at present, is situated on the road from Launceston to Stratton, and is in old records called a borough. The surface is hilly. The principal residence is Morris, formerly the seat of Lord Rolle. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Exeter, value £388, in the patronage of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a National school for both sexes. The Bible Christians, Wesleyans, and Association Methodists have each a chapel. A chantry, with a free school, was founded and endowed by Dame T. Percival in the reign of Henry VIII., but was suppressed in the reign of Edward VI."