[1] The site as a place of worship dates from at least the fourteenth century, but was a chapel to the parish of Madron and first licensed in 1321.

[2] The Reverend Thomas Vyvyan made arrangements to replace it with a new church designed by Charles Hutchens.

[6] A gift of seventeen aloes by Mr Dorrien-Smith of Tresco, Isles of Scilly were planted in the churchyard in 1886.

[9] The first bell in the present church was inscribed ″PEACE AND GOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD, 1713 JP″ and was moved to St John's Hall in 1865 for use as a fire-bell.

Their size (diameter at mouth), weight and inscriptions are, A carillon, costing about £300 and paid for by public subscription, was installed as a memorial to the town clerk and ornithologist, Edward Hearle Rodd.