St Marys Church

St Mary’s Church, Penzance is a Grade II listed parish church inside the Church of England in Penzance, Cornwall. The site as an area of worship dates from at the least the fourteenth century, however became a chapel to the parish of Madron and primary certified in 1321. The chapel turned into spared all through the Spanish raid in August 1595 due to the fact Mass were celebrated, formerly. Despite enlargements in 1662 to 1672, and 1782 it changed into severely overcrowded through 1824. At that point it served a populace of circa 7000 and turned into nonetheless a chapel of ease to Madron, two miles inland.

The Reverend Thomas Vyvyan made preparations to replace it with a brand new church designed by Charles Hutchens. The Clerk of Works turned into John Pope Vibert. The rebuilt church turned into consecrated via the Bishop of Exeter, Henry Phillpotts, on 6 September 1836. A separate parish of Penzance was created in 1871. Arson destroyed the indoors of the church in 1985. The first bell inside the gift church was inscribed ″Peace and Good Neighbourhood, 1713 JP″ and changed into or moved to St John's Hall in 1865 to be used as a hearth-bell.