The Building

Though the town feels like a village today, when the chapel was built in 1757 St Just was a major tin mining center, with a rapidly growing population. By 1833 this chapel was already too small for use and another was built close by. The building became the Sunday School and Assembly Hall for the adjacent school. As the price of tin dropped and the mines began to close over the course of the nineteenth century the building fell into disrepair. It was sold by the church in the 1970s. It was divided in 2005 and the rear of the building came into use as Assembly at that time.

St Just

There are regular buses from St Just to Penzance train station where direct trains link Penwith to London and the rest of the UK. In the market square there is a bakery, butcher, greengrocers, restaurants, cafes, five pubs, a deli, and the Co-op. There is also a public library, a framers and hardware store.

Assembly lies at the junction of two roads, one running down to the Cot Valley and the sea at Porth Nanven, the other to Priests Cove at Cape Cornwall (above). The Cape was considered to be the most westerly point of England until cartographers affirmed that Land's End is slightly further west.