Hope & History

Thursday Gang Day, not a full shift, too much to do, but long enough to get the weekly checks completed and have a coffee and chat with the guys. There is some hope that this Saturday our 1sts will get a result against Bideford but I feel it’s unlikely. When we last played, before the match was abandoned through injury, we were trailing by a couple of points, since then they have improved whilst we have got worse.

History, when Truro Cathedral was built on the site of an existing Tudor parish church dedicated to St Mary it was assumed that the existing church would be demolished and a new cathedral raised on the site however the architect surprised everyone by designing a 'church within a church'.
Most of the existing church was torn down in 1880 but the south aisle was retained to serve as the parish church and in so doing incorporated the old church seamlessly into the new building. The old church is now St Mary's Aisle, with a wagon roof design decorated with bosses commemorating local people and others with a Cornish connection.