The church is open daily from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
Regular services of Holy Communion is held at 11am on the 1st and 3rd Sundays
Calendar - shows all the services for all the churches - if you just want the ones for St John select that using the drop down list.
News and Events - what's going on in the church and community.
Where are we? links to Google Maps for where we are plus lots of pictures and other input.
People, Places, Links and History - who we are, some places and links we are involved with and history of the church.
Donations - if you would like to donate to St John please go to this page.
About the village, church and community:
Situated about 6 miles from Truro, in the Deanery of Powder, the Parish covers an area of 7200 acres; it serves a population of some 4800. The population is concentrated in several villages which have undergone expansion and some regeneration in recent years.
Porthtowan, with some 1000 residents, has a popular surfing beach, with holiday as well as residential accommodation. The village is well served by bar-restaurants and a range of resort related small businesses, and has a modern purpose built village hall, well used by community groups including a playgroup .
Mount Hawke is a former mining village 1.5 miles from the coast; it has a population of about 1500,
Blackwater and Mithian further inland each have about 600 people, also very good schools, with 120 and 110 pupils respectively, and each support a similar range of facilities and small businesses.
The parish has long been an attractive location for retirement; more recently families have been increasingly attracted to the area by the coastal location, with very good commuter links to nearby towns and to coastal resorts, and by the three very good schools in the Parish together with several pre-school providers. Most children progress to secondary education at the Richard Lander School in Truro, and then go on to Truro College.
As well as the village centres there are also numerous individual family and farm dwellings spread throughout the extensive area of countryside .
The Parish has one Anglican Church, St John the Baptist Parish Church in Mount Hawke; the church at Mithian (St Peter’s) has been closed since 2008, has been sold, and is being converted to a private dwelling.
We have a refurbished church hall which is used by community groups as well as the congregation; the church hall at Mithian has also been sold for conversion into a dwelling. There is an almost-full graveyard attached to Mithian Church, with a fund for upkeep, presently administered by the Diocese. The graveyard at Mount Hawke is administered by the civil Parish Council.
The Church building, which was dedicated in 1877, is a plain, typical mid-Victorian building, but has a welcoming interior which generates favourable comment from visitors.
Other churches within the parish are the Methodist Churches at Mount Hawke, Porthtowan and Mawla, the Community Church at Blackwater (in Blackwater Village Hall), and the Soul Café, which meets twice a month at in the Village Hall at Porthtowan.
Our Churchmanship is middle of the road; we use Common Worship, the priest is usually robed, but we enjoy an informal friendly atmosphere; we use Mission Praise as our regular hymn book.
We pay our full MMF quota, and clergy expenses are paid in full.