Talk:St Day

Old Church
Any information about the Old Church in St Day? Vernon White '''. . . Talk''' 22:28, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Something here, and this from the St Day Town Trail "A place of worship from 1829 until it was abandoned in 1956. Unusually the original interior has a gallery.  Today the church is a community venue with an exhibition about local history inside". Pevsner mentions it "HOLY TRINITY - not a usual Cornish dedication, and a church refreshingly negligent of Cornish traditions. Its date, 1828, accounts for that. Though built of granite the style is essentially that of Commissioners' Churches all over England. All the motifs are thin, even the granite appears like paper. The windows are lancets, there are no buttresses, pinnacles appear duly at the NW, SW, NE, and SE corners. A lean W tower not projecting at all beyond the fronts of the aisles. Inside thin tall piers right up to the slightly coved ceilings. There must have been galleries; now there are only beams at gallery height connecting the shafts with each other and with the wall.
 * The Church looks over a landscape of deserted tin mines, with their chimneys like so many monuments to the passing of human achievement, more deeply moving than the artificial picturesque mementos in C18 gardens." (written 1951). DuncanHill (talk) 18:48, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * There is a bit more at, which looks like an interesting site generally. DuncanHill (talk) 18:56, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * And more still at (scroll down a bit). DuncanHill (talk) 19:01, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * . . . and more at the GENUKI article], cited in the St Day article - but it was too late to note this.  Vernon White  . . . Talk 22:29, 12 August 2008 (UTC) BTW is Professor Pevsner referring to the Church Commissioners?  Vernon White  . . . Talk 22:30, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
 * No, he'll mean the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, a predecessor body of the Church Commissioners. DuncanHill (talk) 22:34, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Copper mining at St Day
Wheal Gorland has been and still is famous among mineralogists for its wealth of rare secondary copper minerals. From an economic point of view, however, the mine was almost a complete failure. There were a couple of other mines in St Day parish, but these were small and economically unimportant as well.

The richest copper mine in the mining district was Dolcoath Mine at Camborne, and, after 1917, East Pool Mine at Illogan. Later on, they were both surpassed in this respect by South Crofty Mine (Illogan). Other rich copper mines were Carn Brea & Tincroft United (Illogan), the Tresavean group (Lanner), the Basset Mines (Illogan), and the United Mines (Gwennap).

Reference: Dines, H.G. (1956): The metalliferous mining region of south-west England. HMSO Publications (London), Vol. 1, pp. 276-435.

--Peter M. Haas (talk) 00:48, 2 December 2010 (UTC)