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St Hilary is a village and civil parish
Civil parish

In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a civil parish is usually the lowest unit of local government, below district and county councils....
 in the Penwith
Penwith

Penwith is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council is based in Penzance. The district covers all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which includes an area of land to the east that falls outside the peninsula, being the most westerly distric...
 district of Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

Early English style Church of St Hilary has a 13th Century tower; the remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1855 by William White
William White (architect)

William White, F.S.A. was an England architect, famous for his part in the 19th Century Gothic revival. He was the son of a clergyman and great nephew of the writer and naturalist, Gilbert White of Selborne....
, following a fire in 1853. It is a Grade I listed building
Listed building

A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance....
  . The architecture is described in Pevsner's Buildings of England- Cornwall

After being recently struck by lightning the church is holding a fundraising appeal to restore the bells and spire.

It is dedicated to Saint Hilary of Poitiers.

The parish became notorious in the 1930s after extreme Protestant agitators broke into the church and removed or destroyed many of the fittings and furnishings installed by the much-loved Father Bernard Walke, then vicar of St.






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St Hilary is a village and civil parish
Civil parish

In the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, a civil parish is usually the lowest unit of local government, below district and county councils....
 in the Penwith
Penwith

Penwith is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council is based in Penzance. The district covers all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which includes an area of land to the east that falls outside the peninsula, being the most westerly distric...
 district of Cornwall
Cornwall

Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.

Church

The Early English style Church of St Hilary has a 13th Century tower; the remainder of the church was rebuilt in 1855 by William White
William White (architect)

William White, F.S.A. was an England architect, famous for his part in the 19th Century Gothic revival. He was the son of a clergyman and great nephew of the writer and naturalist, Gilbert White of Selborne....
, following a fire in 1853. It is a Grade I listed building
Listed building

A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance....
  . The architecture is described in Pevsner's Buildings of England- Cornwall

After being recently struck by lightning the church is holding a fundraising appeal to restore the bells and spire.

It is dedicated to Saint Hilary of Poitiers.

The parish became notorious in the 1930s after extreme Protestant agitators broke into the church and removed or destroyed many of the fittings and furnishings installed by the much-loved Father Bernard Walke, then vicar of St. Hilary. More recently some of these have been restored and the devotional Anglo-Catholic atmosphere has been reinstated.

Local government

For the purposes of local government St Hilary is a parish council and elects councillors every 4 years. The principal local authorities in the area are Penwith
Penwith

Penwith is a Non-metropolitan district in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, whose council is based in Penzance. The district covers all of the Penwith peninsula, the toe-like promontory of land at the western end of Cornwall and which includes an area of land to the east that falls outside the peninsula, being the most westerly distric...
 District Council and the Cornwall County Council
Cornwall County Council

File:New County Hall.jpgCornwall County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom....
.

External links

  • at Cornwall Record Office
    Cornwall Record Office

    Cornwall Record Office , part of Cornwall County Council, is situated at Old County Hall in Truro and is the main repository for the historical archives of Cornwall....