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In the mid 19th century some of the congregation left their parish church in Kincraig, to hold their own services in the open air in Insh village.

Unusual in Cornwall, St Michael's church is a light and airy Georgian building, built to a design by the London architect Thomas Edwards, a pupil of Nicholas Hawksmoor.

Gothic Revival church, built 1863 to designs by Welland and Gillespie, with interior by Thomas Drew c1889.

St Elwyn is located next to the estuary of Hayle near to three miles of golden sand and it has an imposing presence above the town.

There is no record of first consecration but there is documentary evidence that in 1170 Thomas Beckett confirmed income to the Priory of Tywardreath.

The present church was probably built in the early 12th century and houses an important series of late medieval wall paintings executed shortly after the completion of the church in the mid 15th century.

The village church of St Winwaloe is said to be one of the oldest in Cornwall and is mentioned in the Domesday Book.