Page from album, showing position on page of two photographs.
St John's Church, Penzance (BC.007) above and St Peter's, Newlyn (BC.008) below
Grid references, St John's, SW 4741 3080
Grid reference, St Peter's , SW 4614 2909
Exterior of St Peter's Church, church hall and The Coombe, Newlyn. The Vicarage is in the background to the left. A boy is standing in The Coombe, next to two earthenware jugs on the ground. Mats or nets hung over the fence. See also BC.009
For almost 20 years, services were held in a building called The Reading Room in Newlyn Town (on St Peter's Hill). Building of the church took place during the incumbency of the third vicar, John Pope Vibert, a Penzance man.
In the early English…
This Parish Church is dedicated to St Creden.
The churchyard and church have, within the late 19th and first part of the 20th-century, made a strong appeal to painters of the Newlyn School of Art, some of whom worshipped regularly at the church and…
View from the North-west
Grid reference, SW 4534 3181
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