All Saints

Tuckingmill is a post-industrial residential area between Camborne and Pool, with the Red River running through it and significant old tin mines nearby. The church was built as a missionary church for the mining community in 1840s and it remains the central focus for worship and heritage in the area.

In 1844 All Saints was built due to a large increase in the mining population around the village of Tuckingmill. The architect, John Hayward of Exeter (1807-1891) designed and built the church in a Romanesque or Norman style. The building was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Exeter on Monday July 7th 1845, along with the accompanying churchyard.

The granite work is worthy of notice, the pillars are carved out of one piece of granite, and the chancel arch is probably the finest arch in any Cornish church. Another treasure is the magnificent twelfth century Font bowl. It originally belonged to the ancient chapel of St Derwa at Menadarva, near Kehelland, which was one of seven such chapels in the old mother parish of Camborne. Upon the building of the new church in 1844, the Basset family presented this medieval treasure to the church. They had somehow acquired it in 1700s and it had been 'reposing in Miss Mary’s Garden' in Tehidy.

A new north chancel window, with angel and golden censer was installed on December 4th 1898, then in July 5th 1900 a new solid oak chancel screen and clergy stalls where put in place. They were dedicated on All Saints Day (the patronal festival), 2nd November 1902.

On January 5th 1908 a near disaster was averted when a fire broke out in the church which was only quelled by timely discovery and prompt extinction, the cause of the blaze being a roof beam adjacent to the boiler house flue catching alight. A bucket chain was formed, while burning wood fell all around the organ as well as much water! Little damage was done, however, for the parish magazine records that 'we were able to hold our usual service in the evening of that day and at the close sang the Te Deum as a solemn act of thanksgiving to God for merciful deliverance from the peril of fire'.