Churches of the British Isles

Heading towards St Agnes village centre, Rosemunday House Hotel is found on the left, former location of Rosemundy House Chapel. This is a large eighteenth century construction, the residence of a succession of landowners, mine pursers, and country gentlemen for over a century. In 1919 the house became a 'Mother and Baby Home'. The mothers would visit the house chapel at 20:00 every day to repent of their sins. In 1967 chapel and house were converted into a hotel.

Head down to Peterville from Rosemundy to find the former Peterville Independent Chapel on Peterville Square, at the bottom of British Road, and diagonally opposite the Peterville Inn. A chapel for the Independents was built about 1779 (or in 1780), and records show births and burials in 1807-1837. The chapel had gone by 1880 (and maps issued then) but it was photographed. Later use included coal yard and garage, but only remnants survive today.

Trevaunce Wesleyan Methodist Chapel & Meeting House can be found by leaving Peterville in the Trevaunce Cove direction. This former chapel near the beach is found just before reaching the first car park on the left. It seems to have been used for religious worship from 1865 when it appears on the preachers plan as Quay Chapel. It was originally one room, extended at the rear in the 1900s. It is thought to have closed in 1920, before becoming a private dwelling.

St Agnes Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built to replace the Goonown Chapel (see 'related links'). The granite foundation stone was laid in 1860 and the chapel was finished two years later. It had seating for nine hundred and fifty, and was extensively renovated in 1964 and again in 1998 when a lift was installed to more easily access the upstairs worship area. It now seats three hundred, and has the war memorial in front of it.

St Agnes Mortuary Chapels are on the right-hand side of Penwinnick Road, heading out of the village on the Penwinnick-bound road. Today they house St Agnes Museum. The municipal cemetery of a little under a hectare was formed in 1876, with the usual two mortuary chapels being added for Church of England and nonconformists to keep them separate. The adjoining buildings have been fully restored and are now Grade 2 listed.

All photos on this page by Jo Lewis.