Mapping Methodism – St Day (Burnwithen) Wesleyan Methodist Association Chapel

St Day is a village between Chacewater and Redruth. This profile of Wesleyan Methodist Association has been compiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell with information provided by Barrie May of Carharrack.

 

Circa 1835: St Day Wesleyan Methodist Association here.

Burnwithian had long acted as a sort of institutional suburb of St Day. In the 1830s the Gwennap Poorhouse as well as a Wesleyan New Connection Chapel were built here. It is likely this chapel was also the Wesleyan Methodist Association Chapel, (Wesleyan Mutual Improvement Society) known to have been demolished to build the Fore Street /West End chapel (which is at the other end of Forth An Eglos) The workhouse was on the site of what is now Burnwithian Terrace, an area to the west of School Hill. The chapel is likely to have been in this area.

The Board School was built at Burnwithian by 1875 and added to the National School and the Sunday Schools run by the Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists and Bible Christians.

Circa 1840: Chapel closed and the building was sold to the Wesleyans who demolished it and re-erected near the centre of the village.