St Raffidy/Raphael's Cross, St Mary's Churchyard

The walls of St Anthony s Chapel were still standing c1765, at the west side of Barbican Street, leading from the Quay to the battery; the chapel was demolished and a fish cellar built there. On a bracket on the western wall of the chapel, a cross stood, and was removed and used as a building stone; the cellar was later rebuilt in 1850, and Mr Rodd had it removed and placed in St Mary s churchyard. Of Ludgvan granite, on one side a seated figure (the Holy Family), on the opposite, a crucifix.

St Anthony s Chapel being on the west side of Barbican Street, would have been somewhere in the buildings now known as The Barbican; the original Barbican was on the opposite side, somewhere along the new sea wall. I am studying old drawings and maps to be more certain.

I have just uploaded a map of 1842 to show the location of St Anthony s Chapel.

Rubbish!!! Really?? With no corroberative evidence? - I do not think so.

@Duffy it is well known that St Anthony s chapel was located within this area. I fail to see what is rubbish about the explanation on offer..... do you know better?

@duffy - Then perhaps you may elucidate with your own erudite manner, just what the history of this stone is - despite Penzance having written evidence at the time it was found and re-positioned? Having spent the last ten years studying the subject, searching for evidence on site and in written form, as well as in cartographical form, I am in no way about to accept rubbish as a reasoned argument.