Editing St Ives, Cornwall (section)

==Religion==
[[File:St Ives Street - panoramio (2).jpg|thumb|upright|Methodist Church, Bedford Road]]<nowiki> </nowiki>[[St Ia's Church, St Ives|St Ia's parish church]] is dedicated to [[Ia of Cornwall]], an Irish holy woman of the 5th or 6th century, and [[St Andrew]], the patron saint of fishermen.<ref>{{citation |title=St Ives Parish Church|url=http://www.stiveschurch.org.uk/|publisher=St Ives Church|access-date=26 March 2012}}</ref> In 1408 the townsmen attempted to get a papal bull to authorise the consecration of their church and cemetery, but they did not achieve this, so they continued without the rights of baptism or burial. However, they undertook the building of the present church between 1410 and 1434 as a chapel of ease, St Ives being within the parish of Lelant. They were able to obtain the right to a font in 1428 but consecration of the cemetery only in 1542. For over a century the vicars of Lelant had resisted demands from the inhabitants of St Ives and Towednack for the right of sepulture but in 1542 the right was granted so the vicars transferred their residence to St Ives and abandoned the vicarage of Lelant.<ref>''Cornish Church Guide'' (1925) Truro: Blackford; pp. 112, 141</ref> There was damage to the church in 1697 when a storm broke through the sea-wall and damaged the roof and a large window over the altar.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Church.|work=The Cornishman|issue=10|date=19 September 1878|page=3}}</ref>

There are chapels dedicated to [[Saint Nicholas|St Nicholas]] on the headland of St Ives Island and [[Leonard of Noblac|St Leonard]] on the quay which were used by the fishermen and have been converted for other uses.<ref>''Cornish Church Guide''; p. 113</ref> The former chapel of St Nicholas was partially demolished by the [[War Office]] in 1904<ref>Mee, Arthur (1937) ''Cornwall''. (The King's England.) London: Hodder & Stoughton; p. 223</ref> but rebuilt in 1909, possibly by [[Edmund Harold Sedding|E. H. Sedding]], from the old materials. It is plain and rectangular and has since been converted into the New Gallery.

The Roman Catholic Church of the [[Sacred Heart]] and St Ia was built in 1909 to a design by [[Alexander Scoles|A J C Scoles]]. There are also two Methodist chapels, one in Fore Street of 1831, and another of 1845 higher up the valley, and a Congregational chapel of 1800.<ref>Pevsner, N. (1970) ''Cornwall''; 2nd ed. Penguin; p. 181</ref>