276 NOTES ON THE CHUKCII OF ST. IVES. 



The only other extract from the borough accounts I need make 



for my present purpose is : — 



'- 1604-5, Pel for the King's Armes in the Churche 16s. 4d." 



Opposite the church porch is a refreshment house of 

 evidently great age ; Matthews (Hist, of iSt. Ives) states that 

 this was the parsonage, but, ^iiore sua, without citing any 

 authority. The present parsonage house (or vicarage) was 

 erected in 1840, and paid for by subscriptions, a list of which 

 appears on a tablet in the tower. 



There seem to have been several chapels and oratories in 

 this parish, some of which have survived into modern times, 

 though no longer used for worship. 



1. The chapel of St. Nicholas on the top of the island was, 

 until recently, used by the War Office as a storeroom, but had 

 been, from time to time, so altered that but little of the original 

 structure remained. Its recent demolition by the "War Office led 

 to an outbreak of cj[uite justifiable local indignation. This chapel 

 is referred to by Leland, Tonkin, Hals and other historians, and 

 in the Ziher Regis is described as "St. Nicholas, chapel to Uni 

 Lalant." Holinshed (1586) says "There is at the verie point of 

 the said Pendines a chappell of St. Nicholas, beside the church 

 of St. la, an Irish woman saint." Tonkin is, no doubt, speaking 

 in his usual loose way, when he says, " On the island (or penin- 

 sula), North of Saint Ives, standeth the ruins of an old Chapel ; 

 wherein God was duly worshipped by our ancestors the Britons, 

 before the church of St. Ives was erected or endowed." An 

 hexagonal shaft surmounting the west end of the roof has every 

 appearance of having been intended to support a cross, or 

 perhaps merely the vane referred to below. At what date this 

 chapel was desecrated we have failed to ascertain, but that it Avas 

 kept in repair as a chapel until recent times is shown by the 

 following copies of some of the many references to the subject in 

 the churchwarden's accounts : — 



"1738 To paid Carpenters and Masons in urder for rebuilding 

 the Chapel on the Island . . . £3.3.3^" 



"Nov. 4 To the workmen about the Chappie on the Island 

 £4 . 16 . 0" 



