Churches of the British Isles

Cameron Estate Methodist Chapel (St Agnes) sat in a former military camp on St Agnes Head (a coastal National Trust site), almost directly west of Higher Bal. The military left at the end of the Second World War, but many servicemen and local families remained. A place of worship for shared Methodist and Anglican use was created in an old store. In 1962 the reverend left and the chapel became an outpost of the Salvation Army until the camp was closed and demolished.

St Agnes Old Chapel & Well once sat in Chapel Coombe, Chapel Porth, to the south of St Agnes Head. The medieval chapel site is now at the end of the car park to the right of this shot, and about 570 metres north-west of Wheal Freedom, with the well being slightly to the north, on the cliff's edge. There was also a post-Reformation storehouse or shelter on the chapel site (1540-1901). The chapel building was destroyed in 1780. The well disappeared in the 1800s.

Goonvrea Seventh-Day Adventist Church meets here, on the northern side of the lane between Goonvrea (to the south of Higher Bal) and Chapel Porth, on this North Cornish coastal promontory to the immediate west of St Agnes. The entire campsite is an Adventist location, one which sits opposite the local chip shop, Kernow Catch-Fish & Shellfish. It hosts regular meetings for youth groups over the course of each summer, being administered by the SEC Youth Group.

Mingoose Wesleyan Methodist Chapel is reached via Goonvrea. The chapel is on the right, set slightly back, opposite the eastwards junction to Penwinnick Road. It was built in 1851 with a Sunday school behind. It became Mingoose Methodist Church in 1932. Numbers increased during the war thanks to evacuees, but those eventually dwindled and services were reduced between 1962-1965. It closed in 1966 and was converted in the 1970s for residential use.

Find St John the Baptist Mount Hawke by circling around Mount Hawke to enter from the south-east corner. It sits on the southern side of the lane, about a hundred metres west of the High Field Road junction. It was built as a chapel-of-ease in 1846, replacing a temporary building in a field at the bottom of the village. It was consecrated on 5 August 1878, built in local stone in the Perpendicular style. It consists of a chancel, nave, south porch, and bell turret.

All photos on this page by Jo Lewis.