Lenterns Butchers

Nr 1 Chapel Street (originally Lady Street); 1800 Phillpotts - Confectioner; 1841 Alexander Hampton - Confectioner; 1870 Faull - Confectioner; 1879 Brighton - Butcher; 1922 Alterations to front - Boaden - Butcher; by 1939 Harveys - Butcher

WOW Chapel Street used to be called or named Lady Street?? never knew that....do you know why it had changed name?

It was originally named after Our Lady the church of St Mary s, when the Weslyan Chapel (1814) was built it all changed.

I thought it was Chapel street because of the original St Anthony s Chapel?! Interesting...

There is another name (earlier), I will place that all in the Chapel Street Album. Do not forget that Chapel Street when constructed was a narrow back lane ; it became widened in the new commercial wealth from 1760 or so onwards; for example, when the Oxnam house was built in 1734, the steps to the entrance stretched out halfway across the street - that would not be the case now. The width was altered in stages, the new houses being cut deeper with basement levels down to the base rock; older small cottages were set directly on the ground.

See this picture for a lovely comparison: http://picturepenzance.co.uk/photos/showimage.php?i=25729&c=748