Paul Church

Paul church is ‘situated in a very exposed part of the parish on an eminence and a considerable distance from the two great masses of the population’. Its interior differed little from a Methodist chapel in the 1800s with wooden small paned windows, whitewashed walls, box pews and a gallery. Wall monuments of wealthy parishioners clustered towards the east end. Unlike Methodist chapels, Paul church had bells, which were rung without consent in 1810.    Plans to restore Paul parish church in 1872-3 had to be scaled down due to problems raising funds in a parish still dominated by Methodism. The subscription list noted that strangers gave more than Mousehole people. New pews got draught-proof doors, giving them an archaic feel, but the rest of Edmund Sedding’s plans were rejected as too expensive. As a result Paul church has Georgian features like plaster ceilings.