From the Royal Cornwall Gazette, Friday 26th May 1882, page 7.
New Mission Church at Malpas.—The Mission Church at Malpas was opened on Friday last. The need of a Mission Church for the people residing in that part of the parish of St Clement has long been felt. The parish church is reached who [sic] no small difficulty from Malpas, and for the most part the residents in that locality have, in consequence, been debarred from attending the weekly services. Services have been conducted in a hired room at Malpas, and to a great extent they were successful, but it was generally conceded that it would be far better to have a mission church which the parishioners could regard as their own place of worship. With this object in view a movement for providing the necessary ways and means was set on foot, and the result is that the church going folk of Malpas have been provided with a very neat and comfortable mission church, which is calculated to seat about 100 persons. Several willing hands and hearts have assisted in the undertaking, but the lion’s share of the work has been done by the Rev A. P. Moor, the vicar of St Clement’s, to whose untiring efforts is chiefly due the erection of the structure. The church is not at all pretentious in its character. There being no windows in the sides the appearance externally is very plain, but the internal effect is pleasing, the large and beautiful window at each end of the building affording ample light. The eastern window is a tracery window and the western is a Gothic three light, both glazed with cathedral glass. The walls are of local stone with granite facings, and the eastern window is of Wild-duck stone. The internal side of the walls is plastered, and will eventually be stencelled. The building consists of an aisle and chancel, the latter being raised two steps, which are faced with granite and laid between with encaustic tiles. The roof is open woodwork, and the altar carved pitch pine. Chairs are adopted instead of pews, and the church is estimated to hold about 100. The internal dimensions are 44 feet by 17 feet. The chancel is beautifully furnished, the altar, the altar hangings, and the chancel curtains being the gift of Mrs Moor. A handsome Bible and Prayer-book have been given by Mrs Benney, of Boscawen-bridge. The total cost of the building is about £200, and £50 are still to be raised. The subscriptions already given towards defraying the costs have come almost entirely from personal friends of the vicar. At the opening services on Friday the preacher was Canon Mason, who took for his text 24th Psalm, 7th and 8th verses, “Lift up your heads, O ye gates,” &c. The words of the text, the preacher remarked, were not inappropriate on that occasion when, on the morrow of the Ascension of our Lord, they were opening a place of worship for the Almighty God after a manner which he had chosen, there in their own village overlooking the beautiful Truro river. They had been preparing in that village a tabernacle which He deigned to occupy and call His own. What a Guest it was whom they would receive more fully the first time when in that place the bread was broken and the wine poured out in His name, and he would be amongst those who were gathered together, according to His promise. Those doors of their little church were opening themselves to receive Him whom Solomon, in his magnificent temple, said he was unable to receive. A collection was made at the close, and a public tea was afterwards held, at which a large number of persons sat down.
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