St Ia
by Terri Waters
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St Ia
Artist
Terri Waters
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St Ia, the parish church of St Ives and the historic Market House.
The parish church of St Ives is dedicated to a 5th-century Irish saint named Ia the Virgin, who is said to have been carried across the Irish Sea on a leaf. The church was built of granite between 1410 and 1434 and is one of the most beautiful churches in Cornwall.
Market House, at the end of Fore Street, was built in 1832. Over the subsequent years, it has had a very chequered history. On this site, there formerly stood a much older structure, the ancient medieval St Ives Guildhall, built in 1490 – the same century as St Ives Parish Church, which it almost directly faces towards the east. The building was purported to be haunted and the spirit-queller employed the traditional ‘bell, book and candle’ when putting these ghosts to rest.
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August 11th, 2020
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