Thank you!

You have helped to raise £50,000.
A powerful illustration of the widespread support for preserving this cherished landmark.

St Just Miners'
Chapel

St Just Miners’ Chapel is the name for the charity, volunteers and supporters dedicated to ensuring that St Just Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and Community Hall doors stay open for community benefit and as a space for performance, spiritual and cultural use.

Built for the benefit of the local tin and copper mining families in 1833, the Chapel has served as a cornerstone of the St Just community for almost 200 years!

It is a testament to the strength and resilience of our towns people and those who helped to build the community we know and love today.

WITH YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT WE CAN NOW BEGIN TO TRY AND PURCHASE THE CHAPEL AND PREPARE FOR FUTURE PLANS TO RESTORE AND REPAIR THE BUILDINGS!

Latest News

Securing our future!

23 December 2024

14 December Concert

2 December 2024

Christmas Tree Festival – opening night: 6th Dec

2 December 2024

On 23rd December 2024 we reached our donations target of £50,000 and, at the same time, was given the news that our Community Ownership Fund grant application was successful.

Read the full story here.

Hitting this target puts the Charity in a position to try and buy the buildings and bring in the expertise and skills needed to oversee this task.

Watch this space for news on how we are going to go about tackling the long term repair and restoration of the Chapel, and what help we might need to do this.

In the mean time your donations can still help our volunteers to keep the doors open and help us prepare for the Chapel’s future as we plan for 2025 and beyond!

“Our hope and our prayer is that the Miners Chapel Charity can ensure that the great legacy of local Methodism will not be consigned to history and that our emphasis on social justice for all and practical service in the community, will be the basis going forward for the magnificent local asset that our Chapel building has always been, and we believe should continue to be.”

“I have attended numerous performances in the chapel and sung there many times in drama productions, community celebrations and commemorations. It is a wonderful building holding almost two centuries of memories for the people of St Just. The Chapel is altogether a great resource for the town and a valuable asset for us all.”

“The Chapel is not only of considerable local significance but is also a national treasure”

“I rate this chapel in the highest rank of all Cornish Methodist buildings. I rank it so highly precisely because it is in scale and architectural ambition one of the ‘cathedrals’ of Cornish dissent, so important to the county’s cultural history. For the ‘Tin Coast’ it is simply the lodestone, irreplaceable, evocative, deeply moving. Every effort to secure a viable future will be worthwhile.”

“The Chapel is now beginning a new chapter of its life, imagining a better future, where the lessons from history contribute to a fair, just and prosperous Cornwall. Where once again the Chapel stays relevant (and standing) for the community it has served past, present and future.”