Mapping Methodism – Hayle Phillack Methodist Sunday school
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Hayle is a port town at the mouth of the Hayle River and is approximately seven miles (11 km) northeast of Penzance. This profile of Hayle Phillack Church Hall (Methodist Sunday school) has been compiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.
Fore Street (Phillack Church Hall). The body of the building is C18 constructed of scoria (copper slag) block, with hipped slate roof, possibly built as a Sunday School for the first Methodist Chapel (1785) in Copperhouse which stood opposite (W. H. Pascoe, C.C.C. The History of the Cornish Copper Company, 1981, 144), re-fronted and extended (single storey) early C20, with rendered parapet gable facade, inscribed ‘Phillack Church Hall 1912’. A large, single storey hall, with tall brick arched windows to left and rear. This hall is mapped as a volunteer drill hall on the 1st Edition 1:2500 OS map c877 – the first volunteer company raised in Copperhouse was in 1798. (Cornwall Heritage Gateway)
Phillack Church Hall stands on the wharves. Although it was re-fronted in 1913, and carries a dated inscription to that effect, it is in fact 18th century, the main body of the building is a single large, scoria built hall, and was used in 1798 as the Sunday School for the first Methodist Meeting House that stood south of market Square. From about 1860 until the building of the new Drill Hall in 1911 it was used as a drill hall. It is still used as a community hall.
1798: Used as a Sunday school.
1827: Hayle and Angarrack Sunday schools combined and processed “to the height of the Towans” where they sang hymns and heard an address by the Rev. Thomas Martin. They returned to the chapel for tea and cakes and then went to the beach where they formed a circle and sang hymns. (8th June West Briton)
1913: New façade built.
1860 to 1911: Used as a drill hall.
Became a community hall.