Discover 11 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in St Ives (United Kingdom). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Tate St Ives, St Ia's Church, and Belgrave St Ives. Also, be sure to include Barbara Hepworth Museum in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in St Ives (England).
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Tate St Ives
Art gallery in St Ives, England. Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden, in 1980.
The Tate St Ives was built between 1988 and 1993 on the site of an old gasworks and looks over Porthmeor beach. In 2015, it received funding for an expansion, doubling the size of the gallery, and closed in October 2015 for refurbishment. The gallery re-opened in October 2017 and is among the most visited attractions in the UK.[1]
Address: Porthmeor Beach, TR26 1TG St Ives
St Ia's Church
Parish church in St Ives, England. St Ia's Church, St Ives, is a parish church in the Church of England in St Ives, Cornwall, UK. It is dedicated to Ia of Cornwall, a 5th- or 6th-century Irish saint, and is a Grade I listed building.[2]
Belgrave St Ives
Art gallery in Towednack, England. Belgrave St Ives is a commercial art gallery, specialising in modern British and contemporary art in St Ives, Cornwall, southwest England. It gives emphasis to work produced in Cornwall from the 1930s onwards, when the town of St Ives became an internationally important modernist artistic centre.[3]
Barbara Hepworth Museum
Museum in St Ives, England. The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall preserves the 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there. She purchased the site in 1949 and lived and worked there for 26 years until her death in a fire on the premises in 1975.[4]
Address: Barnoon Hill, TR26 1AD Saint Ives
Saint Ives Society of Artists
Museum, Art gallery
Address: 21 Back Rd W, TR26 1LU Saint Ives
Penwith Gallery
Museum, Art gallery, Shopping
Address: Back Rd W, TR26 1NL Saint Ives
Barnoon Workshop
Museum, Art gallery
Address: Clodgy View, St Ives
St Ives Museum
Museum
Angarrack viaduct
Angarrack railway viaduct crosses the valley of the Angarrack River at Angarrack in west Cornwall, United Kingdom.[5]
St Gwinear's Church
St Gwinear's Church, Gwinear is a Grade I listed church in the Church of England in Gwinear, Cornwall.[6]
The Carracks
Island. The Carracks and Little Carracks are a group of small rocky inshore islands off the Atlantic north coast of west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The name comes from "carrek", the Cornish language word for 'rock'. The Little Carracks were still known as Carrack an Heythen c. 1920. The islands are in Zennor civil parish.
The islands are located between Zennor and St Ives and are approximately 200 metres off shore; The Little Carracks are between the Carracks and Towednack Quae Head which is east of the islands. The largest island in the group is sometimes referred to as Seal Island and is home to Atlantic grey seals, dogfish, anglerfish and sea anemones.
Boats from St Ives often travel to and from the islands to give visitors the chance to observe the seals and other wildlife on the island.
In 1916, the Enrico Parodi, a 339-foot-long, 3,818-ton steel vessel, struck Gurnard's Head during thick fog. While being towed, it sank off The Carracks and remains there at present as a diving attraction.[7]