St Ia's Church, St Ives
South view of St Ia 's Church
The St Ia 's Church in St Ives, St Ives Parish Church also, is a parish church 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 Ia, a Cornish saints, after the town of St Ives is named.
St Ia 's Church was built in 1410-1434 as a branch church of the parish of Lelant, St Ives to the then belonged. Only in 1826 it got the status of a parish church, that is the main church of a parish.
Building
The Church of St Ia was built directly at the port of St Ives. Between here and the harbor is only the building for the lifeboat ( Lifeboat ) of the city. For this building and the water in the east the church property is limited by the Pednolva Walk. North of the church passes the road Lifeboet Hill, west of the Fore Street and the south-west and south of the St Andrew 's Street.
The church building consists of four nearly aligned in the east-west direction naves that are about the same height and three of which are about the same size or length. Only the south aisle, a later cultivation by the Trenwith Family 1450-1500 is smaller than the other, which is due to the course of the St Andrew 's Street, which runs diagonally on the southwest side along the church and could not be built. In the building of St Ia is thus a hall church, in which the four naves but are not united under one roof, but each has its own gable roof. To the north aisle closes on its northeast side of a smaller transept, the Fishermen's Aisle ( " Fischer- aisle " ) is called. Under the roofs are barrel vaults resting on sandstone pillars. The outer walls are made of field stone masonry, are embedded in the Gothic window openings.
The steeple of St Ia is on the west side of the church building. It consists of Cornish granite, which was at the place Zennor won west of St Ives. The building material is shipped by sea to its destination at the port of St Ives. In the 24 -meter-high four-storey bell tower two in 1830, cast in Hayle bells are hung. The tower windows date from 1863 to Victorian times and make the story of Dorcas ( Tabitha / Dorcas -. Acts 9.36 to 43 ) dar. on north and south sides of the tower are the dials of the church clock, which by the firm JB Joyce & Co constructed in 1935, was affixed and replaced an older with only one hand. There are indications that the base of the tower is older than the existing building today, possibly comes from an older predecessor the Church.
Interior
The church interior is measured at the base quite low. Four longitudinal vessels are separated from each other by column arcs. Under the barrel vaults partially gilded wood carvings and bracing are attached, the lower limits decorate Angel, Apostles and Saints. On a cross- beams under the ceiling of the nave, a group of figures is placed, representing Jesus Christ on the cross and his mother Mary and the Apostle John. They date from 1932 and were built on the site of 1647 by Puritans destroyed rood screen.
The altarpiece of the standing on the east side of the nave altar is made of alabaster. In the center of the altar on a red background a silver cross attached, a work of the Guild of Artisans in London. The statue to the right of the Crucified, the patron saint of the church, the holy Ia Represents the altar superior exterior window was destroyed by an explosion in 1904 when working with dynamite and replaced in 1905. At the 1915 built wooden choir stalls Cornish are representations of human figures from the 15th century, were once part of the destroyed rood screen. The pulpit, fitted with wood paneling from the beginning of the 17th century, built from original bank ends and replaced an earlier three-tier pulpit.
On the east side of the north aisle of the church organ is installed. It replaced two predecessors, a small barrel organ from 1831 and installed by the company Telford Telford organ from 1859. Today's three-manual, that is provided with three manually operated keyboards organ was built by Hele & Company of Plymouth in 1907 and 1993 restored by the company Lance Foy of Truro. A detailed description of the organ can be found in the National Pipe Organ Register ( NPOR ) of the British Institute of Organ Studies.
In addition to the organ is the entrance to the Baptistery, which was built on the back of the north-eastern transept, the Fishermen's aisle. The baptistery dates mainly from the 20th century, it owes its present appearance to the design of Stephen Dykes Bower, from the year 1956. The carvings are from John Williams from St Austell. The four angels under the roof of the Baptistery were restored by conservators Elizabeth and John from St Ives Cynddylan together with the gilder and calligrapher Jenny Hancox 1996, gilded and painted. The checkerboard pattern paved floor, consisting of 12,000 slates laid in 1956 the company Kent & Jenkins from St Ives. The standing thereon baptismal font from the 15th century, is carved out of granite.
Right of the high altar, in the south adjacent aisle, was erected a statue of the Infant Jesus in front of a oak paneling in 1928 in the so-called " children's corner " ( children 's corner ). This is from a book in which visitors can enter the church their concerns for inclusion in the prayer of the daily worship in the Lady Chapel (Lady Chapel ). This is in the " Trenwith - aisle " ( Trenwith aisle ), the southernmost part of the church building. The Lady Chapel is by a carved wooden wall erected in 1931 by local artist Dale Shallat, the fruit is devouring birds, separated from the rest of the church. In the Lady Chapel, the 80 inch high marble statue of " Madonna and Child " is the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, 1972 also designed the two stainless steel candlestick " Christmas Rose " for the Church.
A damaged bronze plaque near the door of the Trenwith aisle provides Oto Trenwith with his wife, the Archangel Michael imploring represents the panel is dated to the year 1463. In the west wall of the Lady Chapel is still closed today, " Organ tower" stone stairway that led to the former rood screen. On it was one of the oldest organs of Cornwall, which was destroyed in 1647 along with the rood screen. Your pipes were used as gutters and drain pipes around St Ives.