St Agnes Church
The first church in St Agnes was believed to have been built in early Celtic times and it also had an enclosure. The current church of St Agnes was built on the same location around 1482. St. Agnes, to whom the church is dedicated, was a Roman girl who was only thirteen years old when she was executed for refusing to marry the emperor's son.
During an excavation in 1931, to add heating to the church, the remains of an earlier chapel were discovered and also a wet area that is thought to be the remains of a holy well. By the churchyard gate is a granite wayside cross which dates from the Middle Ages.
On walks
- Perranporth to St Agnes (via bus) (4.7 mile walk)
- Trevaunance Cove and Blue Hills mine (3.1 mile walk)
Get the iWalkCornwall app
Download the app and use it to explore the walks and to purchase a guided route.
The app will direct you to the start of the walk via satnav.
The app guides you around the walk using GPS, removing any worries about getting lost.
The walk route is described with detailed, regularly-updated, hand-written directions.
Each time there is a new direction to follow, the app will beep to remind you, and will warn you if you go off-route.
A map shows the route, where you are at all times and even which way you are facing.
Each walk is packed with information about the history and nature along the route, from over a decade of research than spans more than 3,000 topics.
Once a walk is downloaded, the app doesn't need a phone or wifi signal during the walk.
The app counts down distance to the next direction and estimates time remaining based on your personal walking speed.
We keep the directions continually updated for changes to the paths/landmarks - the price for a walk includes ongoing free updates.
