The work was superintended by the Reverend A H Cummings, who employed the village mason, carpenter, blacksmith and glazier.

The roof of the north aisle was repaired and boarded inside, and enriched with carved oak bosses.

[7] He is notable for the controversy aroused by his ministry due to his practice of liturgical borrowing from the Roman Catholic Church and other aspects of it.

[8] Though disciplined by successive bishops of Truro (Charles Stubbs and Winfrid Burrows) he persisted in his ways.

[10] Eventually a group of his opponents ejected him from the parish by force and he took refuge at St Hilary with Bernard Walke.