St Ia's Church, St Ives
| St. Ives Parish Church, Cornwall | |
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St Ia's Church, St Ives
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| Denomination | Church of England |
| Churchmanship | Liberal Catholic |
| Website | Church website |
| History | |
| Dedication | Ia of Cornwall |
| Architecture | |
| Heritage designation | Grade I listed |
| Designated | 4 June 1952 |
| Administration | |
| Parish | St Ives, Cornwall |
| Deanery | Penwith |
| Archdeaconry | Archdeaconry of Cornwall |
| Diocese | Diocese of Truro |
| Province | Province of Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | The Revd Andrew Gough |
St Ia, St. Ives Parish Church, St Ives is a parish church in the Church of England located in St Ives, Cornwall. It is dedicated to Saint Ia of Cornwall, a 5th- or 6th-century Irish saint, and is a Grade I listed building.
The church is dedicated to Saint Ia the Virgin, also known as Ives, supposedly an Irish holy woman of the 5th or 6th century. The current building dates to the reign of King Henry V of England. It became a parish church in 1826. It was built between 1410 and 1434 as a chapel of ease: St Ives being within the parish of Lelant. The tower is of granite and of four stages (over 80 ft high): the church is large but not particularly high and built in a Devonian rather than a Cornish style. An outer south aisle was added by the Trenwith family about 1500: this is now the Lady Chapel and contains a statue by Barbara Hepworth.
The font is of granite and probably of the 15th century. It is carved with four angels hold ing shields. There are bench ends of the standard design and also two complete benches in the chancel. There is a brass to a member of the Trenwith family, 1463, and a monument to the Hitchens family by Garland & Fieldwick, 1815.
The church has a pipe organ dating from 1831. It has been restored by Telford and Telford in 1859 and by Hele & Co in 1907, and more recently by Lance Foy in 1993. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.
There is a late medieval lantern cross ten and a half feet high on an octagonal shaft.
Coordinates: 50°12′45.18″N 5°28′47.82″W / 50.2125500°N 5.4799500°W
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