PAR - Mission Church of the Good Shepherd

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Consecrated 19th June 1896. Open during the hours of daylight.

Vicarage: Par (01726) 812775

Services:
Sundays: 9am Sung Mass & Sunday School 6pm Evening Prayer every third Sunday
Tuesdays: 6.30pm Evening Prayer;7pm Mass 9am Matins, 9.30am Mass

The Church was built in 1896 and its total cost was met by John Gott, third Bishop of Truro (1891 -1906). Bishop Gott lived at Trenython, a house standing on the side of a hill overlooking Par and St Austell Bay. Previously, as Vicar of Leeds, John Gott built a similar Mission Church in that city, also dedicated to The Good Shepherd. The Bishop often officiated at the little church" during his Episcopate, or sent his Chaplain to take services for him. Over the north door is a plaque depicting Jesus the Good Shepherd. this had been in Bishop Gott's chapel at Trenython and was given to the Church for safekeeping in 1982. The Church was previously much different from its present layout.

For a fuller description of this and for information on the beautiful East Window and the West "rose" Window, please refer to the "Short History" notelet.

PAR - Parish Church at Biscovey Dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin.

on main A390

Open during the hours of daylight.

Vicar: 42 Vicarage Road, Par.

Services:
Sundays: 10.30am Sung Mass & Sunday School 6pm Evening Prayer every 3rd Sunday
Wednesdays: 9am Mass
Thursdays: 9am Moming Prayer
Saturdays: 9am Morning Prayer; 9.30am Mass

In 1846 George Rundle Prynne became the first Vicar of the new Parish of Par, on the nomination of the Prime Minister of the day, Sir Robert Peel. When the Revd Prynne came, there was no Church and no Vicarage. He found a young architect, George Edmund Street, and the two young men planned a Church designed for Catholic worship. It was finished in 1849 and has been highly praised by experts.Look especially at "the barn-like simplicity of the Nave roof and that of the Aisle, and the delightful triple lancets of the East Window". The building is constructed of Pentewan "pink" stone. Sir John Betjeman wrote of Street, "I doubt if he ever produced a better Church than the honest, simple, Parish Church of Par". For a more detailed description and architectural notes, please refer to the "Short History" notelet.

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