nanaval Loc: Cornwall

I was able to get inside and take some pictures while the cleaning and clearing of weeds went on.. I think the base of the font and the stone with a hollow in it may be the top of the font..

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Font top?

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Font base?

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View from the back of the church

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Looking towards the alter

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Window frames now put in

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Front view..

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UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Beautiful set, Val!

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Thank you very much Mike. I have some more of the plaques which I will post later..

rlaugh Loc: Michigan & Florida

Great set Val!!

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Thank you very much Bob..

angler Loc: StHelens England

Excellent set Val.

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Thank you very much Jim...

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Very nice set Val - thanks for sharing!

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Nice series, especially the fourth, my favorite.

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Thank you very much Bill..

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Thank you very much John, Glad you like no 4. not often a view that gets photographed...

Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida

Remarkable Ruins......wonderful space. I believe you are correct about the baptismal basin & it's apparent base. One wonders why it is displaced and not reunited....?????
Thank you.

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

Nice one's nan. How did the Church get into its present ruined state?

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Thank you very much Blair. I took the shots a couple of years ago while they were working inside. As there has been a lot of repair work inside to make it safe to use and new window frames were put in. It was only recently that there have been thing going on there like the light show and there was the village choir singing inside. The font and base I expect are now together. I will let you know when I get to go inside...

nanaval Loc: Cornwall

Thank you very much Doddy.. I got this information from the St Day Parish Council web site. Easier to copy and paste ...

The church was built in 1826-8 to designs by Charles Hutchens of Torpoint and was one of twelve in Cornwall funded by the Church Building Commissioners from money made available for church building following the Battle of Waterloo. Constructed of local grey granite ashlar in the “Commissioners’ Gothick” style, it consisted of a five-bay rectangular nave, a shallow three-sided apse at the east end and a west tower. Internal galleries around the north, west and south walls meant the new church could seat 1,500 people.

Built at a time when the local population was expanding rapidly due to the booming mining industry, the church proved far too big as mining declined in the second half of the 19th century, and in 1931 the galleries were removed, compromising the stability of the building.

In 1956 the Old Church was declared unsafe due to structural problems and was closed. The congregation moved into the former hall building on the opposite side of Church Street, and that now serves as the parish church of St Day.

By the 1980s the fabric of the Old Church had deteriorated and in 1985 vandalism caused part of the roof to fall in and, as a result, the remainder of the roof was demolished using explosives.

The building was left in a sorry state, full of rubble, for a number of years, until 1988 when the St Day Old Church Appeal Committee was formed to save the building. Some essential renovation work, including a new lightning conductor, was carried out in 1994, and after The Trevithick Trust secured the lease of Old Church from the Diocese of Truro in 1999 the Old Church underwent a major programme of structural stabilisation works allowing public access once more.

The Old Church is grade II listed and situated within a Conservation Area and World Heritage Site.

WHAT’S HAPPENING
Before we can reopen the Old Church to the public, some essential repairs were needed to the windows and we are delighted to say that this work was completed in December 2019. Early 2020 will see further work bring an electricity supply to the building, adapt the remains of the vestry area to create a roofed dressing room and store, and to reinstate the original front entrance to the church.

Meanwhile we are working with our creative partners The Day-Light Group to bring exciting community events to the Old Church starting in February 2020