278 NOTES ON THE CHURCH OF ST. IVES. 



Lysous state that in 1814 the foundations of an oratory were 

 visible at Higher Tregenna; and Dr. Borlase, MS. Collections, 

 quoting the Exeter Ejiiscopal Registers-^ mentions "the Chapel of 

 Saint Ante, alias Ansa, prope ripam maris" under the year 1495, 

 at Saint Ives, in which a guild was established, and says that it 

 was turned into a smith's shop in June, 1770. 



The Ilariner's Licenm'd CJiajjel, opened 23 Aug., 1867, was 

 situate in a side street near the quay. It was an upstairs room, 

 apparently once a loft of some kind, and nothing in its external 

 appearance suggested its use excej^t a small cross on the roof. 

 It w^as, however, Avell worthy of a visit, and afforded an example 

 of what can be done by the expenditvire of thought and exercise 

 of taste to make a church at a very trifling expense. The room, of 

 which the fittings and furniture can only have cost a veiy few 

 pounds, was infinitely more ecclesiastical in appearance than 

 many of our district churches, the erection of which has entailed 

 considerable expenditure. When Opie was asked what he mixed 

 his paints with, he rejilied, "with brains, Sir!" The same 

 ingredient, with plenty of good taste as well, had been used here. 

 This interesting building Avas jjulled down in October, 1903, and 

 a room at the back of the White Hart Hotel in Fish Street was 

 opened under date of the bishop's licence, 8 Oct., 1903, at which 

 time was begun the new Mariner's Church (in memory of the 

 late Canon Jones.) This new building, of which the walls are 

 now nearly completed, is in Norway Lane, and stands partly on 

 the site of the demolished chapel. The architect is Mr. Edmund 

 Sodding, and, as far as can be judged from the imtinished 

 building, the new church will be a work of exceptional merit.-" 



28. I have failed to trace this in the registers. 



29. If any of my readers are not acquainted with the vahiable notes on the 

 architecture of Cornish churches that Mr. Sedding frequently contributes to the 

 Truro Diocesan Magazine I strongly advise their becoming so. 



Note. For the extracts from borough accounts, &c., I have mostly trusted to 

 Mr. Matthews' History. 



