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Churches of the British Isles

Gallery: Churches of Cornwall

by Jo Lewis, 27 October 2024

Carrick (North & West) Part 24: Churches of White Rose to Chacewater

White Rose Bible Christian Chapel, White Rose, Cornwall

White Rose Bible Christian Chapel (First Site) and Sunday school is found when heading towards Chacewater from the west, and taking the difficult right-hand turn back on itself (High Street) up the hill. An unmade track at the top of Cox Hill leads to the site. As a Sunday school this may have predated the chapel, which sat next to it (see below) but was later demolished. It was built around 1830, maybe as a Bryanite chapel. Today it serves as an artist's studio.

White Rose Bible Christian (Zion) Chapel, White Rose, Cornwall

White Rose Bible Christian (Zion) Chapel (Second Site) sits next to the old Sunday school (see above) and over the site of the original chapel. This building replaced the old one when it was built in 1905, perpendicular to the position of the old chapel. The plot change can be seen on old maps. It had seating for 170, becoming United Methodist in 1907 and the Zion or Cox Hill Methodist Church in 1932. It closed in 1972 and the premises were sold for residential use.

Creegbrawse Primitive Methodist Chapel, Creegbrawse, Cornwall

The former Creegbrawse Primitive Methodist Chapel can be reached by leaving Cox Hill (High Street) and taking the turn for Creegbrawse. The chapel building still stands and can be found on the left-hand side of the lane. It was built as a Primitive Methodist chapel, with documentation surviving which notes a recently-erected chapel by William Sims (engineer) in 1827. He was seeking a lease for the building, which is dated to 1828 and which had seating for 140 people.

Creegbrawse Primitive Methodist Chapel, Creegbrawse, Cornwall

The Primitive Methodist chapel became Creegbrawse Methodist Church at the Methodist union of 1932. It closed as a Methodist church in 1963, with the congregation joining the still-operational Cox Hill Chapel (see above). However, it continued to open as an independent chapel between 1963 and 1968, and still seems to have been in use as late as 1987. Closure came after that and the building was sold for eventual conversion into a private residential dwelling.

Chacewater Baptist Chapel, Chacewater, Cornwall

The first Chacewater Baptist Chapel has been lost, with this view showing the village centre. There are early references to one - perhaps two - Baptist chapels in the village but none show up on maps. English engineer Jonathan Hornblower and his family built Hornblower Cottages and lived there. They began meeting with a group of like-minded believers for conversation, hymns, and prayer. The need was seen for a meeting house, with one being opened in 1768.

Chacewater Baptist Chapel, Chacewater, Cornwall

It is thought that the Salem Chapel next door to Hornblower Cottages (see above) may have been this early Baptist chapel. By 1769 there were possibly five hundred meeting for worship but, by 1789, there were concerns that this Baptist church meeting would become destitute, so the meeting joined the Truro Baptists to rent the old Presbyterian meeting house in Truro (1878), where they stayed for sixty years before moving to the River Street chapel (see links).

All photos on this page by Jo Lewis.

 

 

     
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