Churches of the British Isles

The lost Restronguet Barton Ukrainian Chapel sat behind this memorial cross on the north-eastern side of the lane. This is found about one third of the way from the Passage Hill and Restronguet Hill junction to the north-west, and Restronguet Barton to the south-east. Ukrainian Second World War refugees were sheltered in a camp of Nissan huts behind this cross (now farm buildings). Three Roman Catholic priests blessed one of the huts as a chapel in 1948.

The Parish Church of St Mylor is sited by the banks of the River Fal, at the mouth of Mylor Creek in St Mylor Churchtown. This area sits about three kilometres to the south-east of Mylor Bridge, with easy access via Trelew. The site has been a place of worship since AD 411 when a bishop of the late-Roman Celtic Church in Britain landed at what is now Mylor harbour. He built a simple wattle church and wooden buildings which formed the monastery of Lawithick.

A Norman church was built here in the twelfth century, parts of which still exist. Largely restored in 1870, the church tower houses a bell which is dated 1767. The detached bell tower has three bells, one of which is medieval, with the others dated 1637 and 1664. The cross of St Mylor which sits at the entrance to the porch is just over five metres in height, two metres of which are buried. The font base is thirteenth century granite in this Grade 1 listed stone building.

Flushing lies a short way to the south-west of Mylor Churchtown, on the northern flank of the River Penryn mouth. The Church of St Peter overlooks the river from the northern side of St Peter's Road. Built as a chapel of ease in 1841 to a design by Plymouth's George Wightwick, it has been restored no less than three times. It consists of a nave, apse, and bell turret with one bell. A Cornish cross sits in the churchyard which was found in a farm building at Porloe in 1891.

The former Flushing Bible Christian Chapel sits at Nos 43-45 Kersey Road, on the south-eastern side of the road, and overlooking the junction with St Peter's Road. The chapel is shown only on the 1873-1888 SW England OS map, with it occupying the space which is now taken by the two wooden buildings seen today. The chapel was built in 1833, but the lease was surrendered in 1902 when it was part of the Falmouth / Penryn Bible Christian circuit.

Two photos on this page by Jo Lewis, three kindly contributed by Cornish Memory, Claire Stocker, and Guy Fogwill via the 'History Files: Churches of the British Isles' Flickr group, and one by Elizabeth Dale via Cornishbirdblog.com, with permission.