St Ias Church

St Ia’s, St. Ives Parish Church, St Ives is a parish church inside the Church of England located in St Ives, Cornwall, UK. It is dedicated to Saint Ia of Cornwall, a 5^th or 6th-century Irish saint, and is a Grade I indexed building. The church is devoted to Saint Ia the Virgin, also known as Ives, supposedly an Irish holy girl of the 5th or 6th century. The cutting-edge building dates to the reign of King Henry V of England. It have become a parish church in 1826. It was constructed among 1410 and 1434 as a chapel of ease: St Ives being within the parish of Lelant. The tower is of granite and of four levels the church is large but now not especially excessive and built in a Devonian instead of a Cornish fashion.

An outer south aisle became delivered through the Trenwith family approximately 1500, this is now the Lady Chapel and contains a statue by Barbara Hepworth. The font is of granite and likely of the 15th century. It is carved with 4 angels hold ing shields. There are bench ends of the standard design and also two whole benches inside the chancel. There is a brass to a member of the Trenwith family, 1463, and a monument to the Hitchens own family by means of Garland & Fieldwick, 1815.