St Ia's Church
| St Ia's Church | |
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 South view of St Ia's Church |
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| Data | |
| place | St Ives , Cornwall |
| Construction year | 1410 to 1434 |
| height | 24 m |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 12 '45.2 " N , 5 ° 28' 47.5" W |
| particularities | |
| five-aisled hall church | |
The St Ia's Church in St Ives , including St Ives Parish Church is a parish of the Church of England . It forms the center of the Anglican church ( Parish ) of the town of St Ives, cornish Porth Ia , in the west of Cornwall . The church is dedicated to Ia , a Cornish saint after whom the city of St Ives is named.
St Ia's Church was built between 1410 and 1434 as a branch church of the parish of Lelant , to which St Ives was then part. It was not until 1826 that it received the status of a parish church, that is, the main church of a parish.
building
The Church of St Ia was built right on the harbor of St Ives. Between her and the harbor is only the building for the rescue boat (Lifeboat) of the city. To this building and to the water in the east, the church property is bounded by the Pednolva Walk . North of the church, the road runs Lifeboet Hill , west of the Fore Street and the southwest and south of the St Andrew's Street .
The church building consists of four roughly east-west direction aligned naves , which is about the same height and three of which are approximately the same size or length. Only the south aisle , a later addition by the Trenwith Family between 1450 and 1500, is smaller than the others, which is due to the course of St Andrew's Street , which runs diagonally along the south-west side of the church and could not be built over. The building of St Ia is thus a hall church in which the four naves are not united under one roof, but each has its own gable roof . A smaller transept , called the Fishermen's Aisle , is connected to the north-east side of the north aisle . Under the roofs there are barrel vaults that rest on sandstone pillars. The outer walls are made of field stone - masonry with Gothic window openings.
The steeple of St Ia stands on the west side of the church building. It consists of Cornish granite , which was mined at the place Zennor southwest of St Ives. The building material was shipped by sea to its destination at the port of St Ives. Two bells cast in Hayle in 1830 are hung in the four-story bell tower , which is over 24 meters high . The tower windows date from 1863 from Victorian times and represent the story of Dorkas (Tabea / Tabita - Acts 9,36-43). On the north and south sides of the tower are the dials of the church tower clock , which were made by the company JB Joyce & Co constructed in 1935 and replaced an older one with only one pointer. There are indications that the base of the tower is of an older date than the structure that is in existence today, possibly originating from an earlier building of the church.
inner space
The interior of the church looks rather low compared to the area. The four aisles are separated from each other by column arches. Under the barrel vaults there are partially gilded wood carvings and struts, the lower borders of which are decorated with figures of angels , apostles and saints. A group of figures depicting Jesus Christ on the cross as well as his mother Mary and the apostle John is placed on a crossbeam under the ceiling of the central nave . They date from 1932 and were installed on the site of the rood screen that was destroyed by Puritans in 1647 .
The altarpiece of the high altar on the east side of the central nave is made of alabaster . In the center of the altar on a red background is a silver cross, a work of the artisans' guild in London. The statue to the right of the crucified Christ represents the patroness of the church, St. Ia. The outer window above the altar was destroyed by an explosion in 1904 while working with dynamite and replaced in 1905. The choir stalls made of Cornish wood, built in 1915, contain depictions of human figures from the 15th century, which were once part of the destroyed rood screen. The pulpit , equipped with paneling from the beginning of the 17th century, is built from original bench ends and replaced an earlier three-tier pulpit.
The church organ is built into the east side of the north nave . It replaced two predecessors, a small barrel organ from 1831 and an organ from 1859 installed by Telford & Telford . Today's three-manual organ, with three manually operated keyboards , was built by Hele & Company from Plymouth in 1907 and in 1993 restored by the Lance Foy company from Truro . A detailed description of the organ can be found in the National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR) of the British Institute of Organ Studies .
Next to the organ is the entrance to the baptistery , which was built at the rear of the northeast transept, the Fishermen's Aisle . Most of the baptistery dates from the 20th century, and it owes its current appearance to a 1956 design by Stephen Dykes-Bower. The carvings are by John Williams from St Austell . The four angels under the roof of the baptistery were restored, gilded and painted in 1996 by the conservators Elizabeth and John Cynddylan from St Ives, together with the gilder and calligrapher Jenny Hancox. The chessboard-like paved floor, consisting of 12,000 slates, was laid in 1956 by Kent & Jenkins from St Ives. The 15th century baptismal font is carved out of granite .
To the right of the high altar, in the adjacent aisle to the south, a statue of the baby Jesus was set up in front of oak paneling in the so-called “ children's corner ” in 1928 . Here is a book in which visitors to the church can enter their concerns about inclusion in the prayer of the daily church services in the Lady Chapel . This is located in the "Trenwith Aisle " (Trenwith Aisle) , the southernmost part of the church building. The Lady Chapel is separated from the rest of the church by a carved wooden wall by the local artist Shallat Dale, which was erected in 1931 and depicts fruit-eating birds. In the Lady Chapel stands the 80 centimeter high marble statue “Madonna and Child” by the sculptor Barbara Hepworth , who in 1972 also designed the two stainless steel candlesticks “Christmas Rose” for the church.
A damaged bronze plaque near the door of Trenwith Aisle shows Oto Trenwith and his wife pleading with the Archangel Michael . The plaque is dated to 1463. In the west wall of the Marienkapelle there is still the "organ tower" stone staircase, which is closed today and which led to the former rood screen. On it stood one of the oldest organs in Cornwall, which was destroyed along with the rood screen in 1647. Their pipes were used as gutters and drainpipes around St Ives.
supporting documents
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner : The Buildings of England - Cornwall. Penguin Books 1970, p. 180
- ↑ St Ives Parish Church - The Tower ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ St Ives Parish Church Information Sheet , pp. 1-2
- ↑ St Ives Parish Church - The Choir and Nave ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ St Ives Parish Church Information Sheet , pp. 3–4
- ↑ a b St Ives Parish Church on Sacred Destinations
- ↑ National Pipe Organ Register (NPOR)
- ↑ St Ives Parish Church - The North Aisle ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b St Ives Parish Church - The Lady Chapel ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ St Ives Parish Church Information Sheet , p. 6
