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St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia, [1] meaning "St Ia's cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea.
St. Ives Times & Echo, newspaper based in St Ives, Cornwall; St Ives RFC (Cornwall), a rugby union club based in St Ives, Cornwall; St Ives School, a group of artists in St Ives, Cornwall; St Ives School (academy), a secondary school in St Ives, Cornwall; St Ives PLC, a print company founded in St Ives, Cambridgeshire; SS St Ives, a ship ...
The church of St. Ives, a beautiful structure of the age of Henry V, with a lofty tower, is dedicated to St. Ia the Virgin; the edifice is well worthy of the observation of those who are curious in ecclesiastical architecture: the living is part of the vicarage of Uny Lelant, but has lately been endowed, by a grant from Queen Anne's bounty, the ...
This category groups together articles relating to the town of St Ives, Cornwall and the adjoining villages of Carbis Bay, Halsetown and Lelant in the district of Penwith, Cornwall Wikimedia Commons has media related to St Ives, Cornwall .
The first municipal building in St Ives was a medieval guildhall in Fore Street which was completed in 1490. [2] The local portreeve, John Payne, who held meetings in the old guildhall, was hanged as a rebel during the Prayer Book Rebellion in 1549. [2] In the 1820s, civic leaders decided to demolish the old guildhall and replace it with a ...
The westernmost of these, in which St Ives stood, was formally The Western or St Ives Division of Cornwall but was most often referred to simply as St Ives or as West Cornwall. This area included Penzance , Paul , Ludgvan and St Just , and stretched not only from Land's End to St Erth but also included the Isles of Scilly .
It is one of the oldest inns in Cornwall, the public house is dated to "circa 1312" although the present building was built in the 17th or 18th century. Made of granite rubble, with a slate roof, the Sloop Inn was the favourite haunt of Victorian artists, including Louis Grier , and many of his paintings hung there in earlier years.
St Ives is an historic fishing port in west Cornwall and offers a sheltered harbour for ships in the open waters of the Western Approaches.On 24 December 1838 the schooner Rival was trying to enter the harbour in a gale but came to grief on one of its piers; despite lacking proper rescue boats and equipment five people were saved after much courage and effort by the people ashore.