Event Series FOCS Summer Walking Festival

Par OCS, Walk 1: Industrial Heritage of the Area

The Gott Hall Par Green, Par, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Leader – Angie Bailey – Par and St Blazey Industrial History Walk. Approx 2 hours on pavements and good surfaces. This walk will start and finish at the Gott Hall behind the Church of the Good Shepherd where there is a small car park. An optional pasty lunch will be served at 12.30 (£5 per […]

Event Series FOCS Summer Walking Festival

Par OCS, Walk 2: Tracing the Tidal Estuary around Par

The Gott Hall Par Green, Par, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Leader – Chris Michel – Tracing the Tidal Estuary around Par. Approx 2 hours on pavements and good surfaces looking at evidence of the boundaries of old Tywardreath Bay. This walk will start and finish at the Gott Hall behind the Church of the Good Shepherd where there is a small car park. An optional […]

Heritage Day @ Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church of St Mary the Virgin St Blazey Gate, St Austell, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Heritage Day - Honouring G. E. Street the church architect. George Edmund Street (1824-1881) was the architect who was commissioned to build St Mary the Virgin church in Par at the age of 22 and it was his first commission. He went on to become a famous architect renovating many churches in Cornwall, and among […]