Laity Moor is a village two miles north-west of Penryn. This profile of Laity Moor Wesleyan Chapel has been compiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.
From Treluswell travel west to the Laity Moor area and the Wesleyan Chapel is by the side of the road heading west out of Little Lidgey.
Wesleyan wayside chapel, now used as a Greek Orthodox Church. Good simple Gothic style example, part stone rubble, part stuccoed under a scantle slate roof, with original sash windows in pointed-arched openings. Brick gable-ended porch at front end. Road-frontage wall with granite gate-piers. The subject of recent (2001) good repair and slight remodelling. (Cornwall Council Heritage Gateway)
1886: Build date. (Cornwall Council Heritage Gateway)
Built as a Wesleyan chapel. (SWChurches)
Part of Gwennap Wesleyan Circuit. (SWChurches)
1907: Indicated on maps.
1932: The Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and the United Methodist Church amalgamated to become the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
1932: Became Laity Moor Methodist Church. (SWChurches)
1934: Circuit wound up and chapel transferred to Falmouth Methodist Circuit. (SWChurches)
1940: Seating for 50. (David Easton, Methodist Minister and researcher)
1910-1946: Minutes, teachers’ meetings, Sunday School, Laity Moor Methodist Church, Stithians. Includes accounts, 1910-1942. (Kresen Kernow MRG/50)
1910-1957: Trust minutes, Laity Moor Methodist Church, St Gluvias. Includes record of Harvest service collection, 1927. (Kresen Kernow MRF/617)
1957-1976: Trust minutes, Laity Moor Methodist Church, St Gluvias. (Kresen Kernow MRF/618)
1951-1958: Accounts, society stewards, Laity Moor Methodist Church, St Gluvias. (Kresen Kernow MRF/423)
1944-1976: Minutes, teachers’ meetings, Sunday School, Laity Moor Methodist Church, St Gluvias. Annual teachers’ meetings. (Kresen Kernow MRF/428)
Laity Moor [Methodist Church] final service. (Kresen Kernow 287.142376 Cornish reference)
1989-1990: Collection journal and sale account, Laity Moor Methodist Church, St Gluvias. Collection journal, 1989-1990. List of chapel items sold in 1990 upon closure of chapel, with prices realised. (Kresen Kernow MRF/622)
1951-1990: Minutes, Laity Moor Methodist Church, St Gluvias. Leaders’ meetings, 1951-1978; Church Council, 1979-1990. (Kresen Kernow MRF/619)
1990: Chapel closed. (SWChurches / David Easton, Methodist Minister and researcher)
1989-1990: Collection journal and sale account, Laity Moor Methodist Church, St Gluvias. Collection journal, 1989-1990. List of chapel items sold in 1990 upon closure of chapel, with prices realised. (Kresen Kernow MRF/622)
1995: Permission given for the building to be used for Orthodox purposes, under the patronage of Archangel Michael and Holy Piran the Celtic saint. In the Oecumenical Patriarchate, all Orthodox, visitors and inquirers are welcome. At the present time it remains the only Orthodox Christian temple in Cornwall.
1996: Became Greek Orthodox Church. (David Easton, Methodist Minister and researcher)
Since 1996 the building has been used as the Orthodox Church of Archangel Michael and the Holy Piran (Wikipedia)
The church has been established since 1996, in the previous Wesleyan Methodist Chapel which was bought as a place of worship for the small number of Orthodox Christians of Greek tradition in Cornwall.
2000: Essential restoration work with a Narthex added in 2005. http://www.orthodoxincornwall.org.uk/
Laity Moor Methodist Chapel – now a Greek Orthodox Church