St Hilary, Cornwall

50.116666666667 - 5.4166666666667Koordinaten: 50 ° 7 ' N, 5 ° 25' W

St Hilary is a place and a municipality in the former Penwith District of Cornwall in England. The local church, built in the Perpendicular style, has a church tower from the 13th century. The rest of the church, which was heavily damaged in a fire in 1853, rebuilt in 1855 and designed by William White. It is dedicated to Saint Hilary of Poitiers.

The community was very well known in the 1930s, penetrated as radical Protestants in the church and there stole the furnishings or those destroyed. The furniture was the local priest Bernard Walke install before.

Mining

In the vicinity of St Hilary are copper and tin mines as the Penberthy Croft Mine, in 1840 to copper-tin ores were mined. This is the type locality of the rare mineral Bayldonit.