Churches of the British Isles

Falmouth Cemetery Anglican Chapel is one of two near-identical cemetery chapels (see below). This Anglican chapel is sits to the south-west of the Pennance Road entrance, while the cemetery itself sits to the west of Cliff Road, with the Swanpool on its western flank. The chapels were designed in 1854 by Joseph Olver of Falmouth, perhaps partially drawing on earlier designs which were supplied by T W Porter of London, and each has a gable bellcote.

Falmouth Cemetery Dissenters Chapel is the second of Falmouth Cemetery's two near-identical chapels (see above for the Anglican chapel). The Dissenters chapel sits to the north-west of the Pennance Road entrance. Each chapel is of grey-painted stuccoed construction, with stone dressings under a pitched slate roof. The east facade of each building comprises an arched doorway which is flanked by a pair of arch-headed windows with diamond leading.

Firm Foundations Church (Elim) is a newly-planted home church which started an outreach group to help mothers who were struggling to provide for themselves and their children. Firm Foundations was a house church, meaning that all services, events, and meetings were (and are to date) held in the home of the ministers, Sadie and Malcolm Ward. The church appears to have closed down in or before 2025 as no trace of it could be found.

Carrick Free Baptist Church meets at Bosvale Community Centre. This lies to the west of the Swanpool, accessed via a private lane which leads down from Hillside Road where it meets Crossways, in the Boslowick district of Falmouth. The church is a registered charity which practices a doctrinally reformed, Evangelical form of worship, and ascribes to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. It remained active into 2025, despite its apparent humble centre.

(New) Life Church (Assemblies of God) meets in the Dracaena Avenue building which started as a Gospel church in the 1960s. Little is known about that period. The building is on the road's east side, a hundred metres south of the Dracaena Place junction (north of the Swanpool). This Pentecostal / Charismatic fellowship moved here from Penryn Temperance Hall (see 'related links'), with the first service taking place in 2001 as part of 'Falmouth & Penryn Churches Together'.

Dracaena Centre Quaker Meeting takes place inside the centre itself, on the eastern side of Dracaena Avenue about midway between the Ashfield Road and Laburnum Drive junctions. George Fox first visited Falmouth in 1656 and, by 1667, Quakers were building a meeting house in Quay Street (see 'related links'). Much later, in 1988, they moved to Arwennack Street from Gyllyng Street (see links). The meeting remained active into 2024 with regular Sunday meetings.

Church of the Holy Spirit (Labernum Hall) is located on the southern midpoint of Laburnum Drive, around three hundred metres as the road goes to the south-west of the Dracaena Centre (see above). The church first appears on 1969 maps which show this hall. The Light and Life Church (see below) also spent some time here. Little further online information is available at the time of writing, and it is not even clear whether the church remained active into 2025.

Mongleath Road Quaker Burial Ground sits at the north-east corner of the Mongleath Road junction with Bickland Water Road, directly west of Penmere railway station and Dracaena Avenue. There was a pre-1880 mortuary chapel in this old Quaker cemetery, although that has since been lost. The first burial took place here in 1658, and the burial ground was enlarged in 1841. The late seventeenth-century stone boundary walls are Grade II listed.

Light and Life Church (Hillhead Road) was located here in 2022, on the very western edge of Falmouth and of the former Carrick district itself. The church was planted in Falmouth in 2013 as a part of a growing network of Light and Life churches in Cornwall which were founded in 1985 as part of the Free Methodist movement. The church has met in a variety of places including 'The Old Post Office' (from 2019) and Falmouth School (before 2019) before settling here.

Eight photos on this page by Jo Lewis, one copyright © David Dixon via Geograph, reused under a cc licence, and one copyright © Light & Life Church. The tour now proceeds into Kerrier.