53-1868: Lowndes ( / l aʊ n d z / ) may refer to: People with the surname [ edit ] Alan Lowndes (1921–1978), British painter Alan Lowndes (rugby) , English rugby league and union player Christopher Lowndes (1713–1785), early settler and merchant at Bladensburg, Maryland Craig Lowndes (born 1974), Australian racing driver Dorothy Margarette Selby Lowndes (1871-1950), English writer using pseudonym Dolf Wyllarde Emma Lowndes (born 1975), English actress Eric Lowndes (born 1994), Irish Gaelic footballer Geoffrey Lowndes (1898–1982), English cricketer Gillian Lowndes (1936–2010), English ceramist and sculptor Jason Lowndes (1994–2017), Australian cyclist Jefferson Lowndes (1858–1893), English rower Jessica Lowndes (born 1988), Canadian actress and singer-songwriter Lloyd Lowndes, Jr. (1845–1905), American politician Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes (1868–1947), English writer Mary Lowndes (1856–1929), British artist Nathan Lowndes (born 1977), English footballer Rawlins Lowndes (1721–1800), American lawyer and politician Richard Lowndes (disambiguation) , multiple people Robert A. W. Lowndes (1916–1998), American science fiction writer and editor Sarah Lowndes , Scottish writer and curator Steve Lowndes (born 1960), Welsh footballer Thomas Lowndes (disambiguation) , multiple people Timothy Lowndes (born 1979), Australian sport shooter William Lowndes (disambiguation) , multiple people Places [ edit ] Lowndes County, Alabama Lowndes County, Georgia Lowndes County, Mississippi Lowndes, Missouri , an unincorporated community in Wayne County, Missouri, United States Lowndes Square ,
106-527: A Mako or a Porbeagle shark". Coastguards dismissed the claims as "scaremongering". On 14 June 2011 there was a suspected sighting of an oceanic whitetip shark ; the Shark Trust said that the chances of the species being in British waters were "very small". On 18 July 2017 a suspected blue shark was spotted close to the harbour. On 16 July 2018, another blue shark was spotted in the harbour, prompting
159-501: A British painter born in the 20th century is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article about a painter from England is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . St Ives, Cornwall St Ives ( Cornish : Porth Ia , meaning " St Ia 's cove") is a seaside town , civil parish and port in Cornwall , England, United Kingdom. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on
212-596: A boathouse at Porthgwidden beach. It proved to be a difficult site to launch from, and in 1867 it was replaced by a building in Fore Street. In 1911 a new boathouse was built on the Quay, and then in 1993 a larger station was built at the landward end of the West Pier. Since its inception in 1839, thirty eight RNLI medals have been awarded to rescuers from St Ives, 18 silver medals and 20 bronze. Seven crewmen died in
265-661: A branch of the Tate Gallery , the Tate St Ives, opened. The Tate has owned the Barbara Hepworth Museum and her sculpture garden since 1980, as well as her Palais de Danse studio since 2015. The town attracted artists from overseas such as Maurice Sumray who moved from London in 1968, and Piet Mondrian , and continues to do so today with younger artists such as Michael Polat, who took up residence there from his native Germany in 1999. Before
318-426: A chapel of ease, St Ives being within the parish of Lelant. They were able to obtain the right to a font in 1428 but consecration of the cemetery only in 1542. For over a century the vicars of Lelant had resisted demands from the inhabitants of St Ives and Towednack for the right of sepulture but in 1542 the right was granted so the vicars transferred their residence to St Ives and abandoned the vicarage of Lelant. There
371-535: A garden square in Belgravia, London, England Other uses [ edit ] USS Lowndes (APA-154) , a Haskell -class attack transport of the United States Navy Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lowndes . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
424-726: A gentler format than its other manifestation at St Columb Major ). A third festival is the St Ives May Day, a modern revival of West Cornwall May Day celebrations that were once common throughout west Cornwall. The St Ives September Festival celebrated its 30th anniversary in September 2008. It is one of the longest running and widest ranging Festivals of the Arts in the UK lasting for fifteen days and includes music (folk, jazz, rock, classical & world), poetry, film, talks and books. It
477-415: A major centre of British art from the 1920s onwards. The Barbara Hepworth Museum and her sculpture garden are the responsibility of Tate St Ives. It was the wish of the late sculptor to leave her work on public display in perpetuity. The St Ives Museum has exhibits illustrating local history and culture, including mining, fishing, agriculture and domestic life. John Knill , a former mayor, constructed
530-475: A public television crew from Alaska shot scenes for a docudrama about American artist Sydney Mortimer Laurence (1865-1940), who was a member of the St. Ives Arts Club in the late 19th century. Several St. Ives residents, in period costumes, appeared as extras in the production. "Laurence of Alaska," which won two regional Emmy Awards, was produced by KAKM, Alaska Public Television, and later aired on public stations across
583-700: A result of the arrival of the St Ives Bay branch line from St Erth , part of the Great Western Railway in 1877. With it came a new generation of Victorian seaside holidaymakers. Much of the town was built during the latter part of the 19th century. The railway, which winds along the cliffs and bays, survived the Beeching cuts and has become a tourist attraction itself. In 1952, the Royal Navy warship HMS Wave ran aground near
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#1732771769074636-469: A small sandy cove, Harbour by the working port and Porthminster which has almost half a mile of sand. St Ives has an oceanic climate and has some of the mildest winters and warmest summers in Britain and Northern Europe. It is therefore a popular tourist resort in the summer, and also benefits from an amount of sunshine per year that is above the national average. The South West Coast Path passes through
689-401: Is a statutory body incorporated by Act of Parliament. Cornwall Council is the second tier of local government in the area and is a unitary authority with a far wider range of powers. The Council deals with roads, street lighting, highways, social services, children and family care, schools and public libraries. From 2009 to 2021, St Ives parish was covered by three divisions, so electing three of
742-422: Is a statutory body which is consulted regarding planning decisions in the town's area and makes recommendations to the planning authority, Cornwall Council. It is based at St Ives Guildhall . Before 1974, St Ives Borough Council was the principal local authority for what now forms the civil parish of St Ives. Since the reform of local government in 1974 , St Ives has an elected town council. The area overseen by
795-678: Is considered by Terry Frost to be a greater painter. Alan Lowndes died in Gloucestershire in 1978. Grayson Perry selected work by Lowndes for his Unpopular Culture exhibition (2008). In 2021, the centenary of Lowndes’ birth was marked by an exhibition at the Crane Kalman Gallery , London. In reviewing this exhibition David Nowell Smith of the University of East Anglia said “It’s time for Alan Lowndes to emerge from L.S. Lowry’s shadow”. This article about
848-414: Is dedicated to Ia of Cornwall , an Irish holy woman of the 5th or 6th century, and St Andrew , the patron saint of fishermen. In 1408 the townsmen attempted to get a papal bull to authorise the consecration of their church and cemetery, but they did not achieve this, so they continued without the rights of baptism or burial. However, they undertook the building of the present church between 1410 and 1434 as
901-681: Is set locally, at the time of the First World War, when D. H. Lawrence and his German wife came to Cornwall to escape the war in London. Lauren St John 's Dead Man's Cove is situated in St. Ives. The first in a series of books about an eleven-year-old girl called Laura Marlin, who becomes a detective. The St Ives Literature Festival is an annual week-long event, started in 2008, in May. Open air performances are held in Norway Square and
954-718: The Coat of Arms . Typically, the Mayor of the Town of St Ives is also the Mayor of the Borough of St Ives. However, most of the other principal local authority functions for St Ives were undertaken by Penwith District Council and the Cornwall County Council . From 1 April 2009 Penwith and the other five Cornish district councils were replaced by a unified council, Cornwall Council. Like St Ives Town Council, Cornwall Council
1007-562: The Town Council of St Ives includes Lelant , Carbis Bay , Halsetown and St Ives. The elected town council members also become charter trustees of the original borough charter (for the duration of their term in office) which dates back to 1639 entitling them to carry out various ceremonial functions such as appointing a Mayor, awarding freedom of the borough to individuals, representing the Borough at formal occasions such as Remembrance Sunday wearing formal ceremonial robes and using
1060-699: The Victoria and Albert Museum held an exhibition of his work in 1977. The Leach Pottery remains operational and houses a small museum showcasing work by Leach and his students. In 1928, the Cornish artist Alfred Wallis and Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood met at St Ives and laid the foundation for the St Ives School artists' colony there. In 1939, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo settled in St Ives, attracted by its beauty. In 1993,
1113-474: The "Knillian games", which included Cornish wrestling . A second celebration, of perhaps greater antiquity, is St Ives Feast, a celebration of the founding of St Ives by St Ia, which takes place on the Sunday and Monday nearest to 3 February each year. It includes a civic procession to Venton Ia, the well of St Ia, and other associated activities. It is one of the two surviving examples of Cornish Hurling (in
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#17327717690741166-697: The 123 councillors on the council. Between 2009 and 2013, the parish was represented by the St Ives North , St Ives South and Lelant and Carbis Bay . From 2013 to 2021, it was covered by the St Ives East , St Ives West and Lelant and Carbis Bay divisions. At the 2021 local elections , the number of councillors on Cornwall Council was decreased from 123 to 87. St Ives parish is currently covered by two of these divisions, St Ives West and Towednack and St Ives East, Lelant and Carbis Bay . Both divisions elect one councillor. St Ia's parish church
1219-619: The 1940s, most artists in St Ives and West Cornwall belonged to the St Ives Society of Artists, but events in the late 1940s led to a dispute between the abstract and figurative artists in the group. In 1948, the abstract faction broke away to form the Penwith Society of Artists led by Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson. In 1962 Frederick Spratt took a sabbatical in Britain for one year, where he lived and painted representationally in St Ives. The studio pottery Troika
1272-567: The Knill Steeple, a granite monument overlooking the town. In 1797, Knill laid down instructions for the celebration of the Knill Ceremony, which was to take place every five years on 25 July (St James's Day). The ceremony involves the Mayor of St Ives, a customs officer, and a vicar accompanied by two widows and ten girls who should be the "daughters of fishermen, tinners, or seamen". The ceremonies used to have athletic games, called
1325-511: The Past ", from Moments of Being , "... I could fill pages remembering one thing after another. All together made the summer at St. Ives the best beginning to life imaginable. Her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse is said to have been influenced by the view from Talland House where she stayed with her parents on family holidays. This St Ives is generally believed to be the one referred to in
1378-416: The Shark Trust to ask people to "give it plenty of space". St Ives is on the western shore of St Ives Bay , its harbour sheltered by St Ives Island (a headland) and Smeaton's pier. Close to the harbour, in the old part of the town, the streets are narrow and uneven while its wider streets are in the newer parts of the town on rising ground. The town has four beaches: Porthmeor a surfing beach, Porthgwidden
1431-680: The Spanish fleet. They were captured by the English warship Warspite of Sir Walter Raleigh leaking from the same storm. The information given by the prisoners was vital to learning the Armada's objectives. Pedn Olva Mine, a former copper mine, at Pedn Olva Point adit , operated in St Ives before 1911, when the engine house on Pedn Olva Point was demolished, now the site of the Pedn Olva Hotel. The modern seaside resort developed as
1484-616: The St Ives Arts Club, as well as talks, workshops and live music. In 1978/1979 the town, the pub The Sloop Inn and Barnoon Cemetery were filmed and appeared in Jerry Jameson's film Raise the Titanic released in 1980. The final scenes with Alec Guinness were meant to have occurred in a local church but a unusually strong storm a few days earlier had damaged the building rendering it unsuitable for filming. In 1989,
1537-509: The St Ives lifeboat tragedy of 1939. In the early hours of 23 January 1939 there was a Force 10 storm blowing with gusts up to 100 miles per hour (160 km/h). The lifeboat John and Sara Eliza Stych was launched at 3 o'clock to search for a ship reported in trouble off Cape Cornwall . It rounded the Island where it met the full force of the storm as it headed westwards. It capsized three times and drifted across St Ives Bay when its propeller
1590-512: The UK, with tourists spending £85 million per year. Around 540,000 day trippers and 220,000 staying tourists visit St Ives every year, with the tourism industry accounting for around 2,800 jobs in the area. Like in the rest of Cornwall , tourism has been criticised for bringing about problems in seasonal work and affordable housing in St Ives. In 2016, St Ives residents voted to ban second-home owners from buying new build housing, with 83% in favour. This came after average house prices in
1643-518: The astronomer Patrick Moore was clouded out and the eclipse was missed. From medieval times fishing was important at St Ives; it was one of the most important fishing ports on the north Cornish coast. The original pier's construction date is unknown but the first reference to St Ives having a pier was in 1478 in William Worcester's 'Itinerary'. The pier was re-built by John Smeaton between 1766 and 1770 after falling into disrepair. It
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1696-570: The coast of the Celtic Sea . In former times, it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular seaside resort , notably achieving the title of Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011. St Ives was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1639. St Ives has become renowned for its number of artists. It
1749-595: The famous nursery rhyme " As I was going to St Ives " . The Cornish language poet Mick Paynter is resident in St Ives. Modern-day novelist Elizabeth Day , author of The Party, writes many of her novels whilst staying in St Andrews Street in St Ives. The Ulysses Moore series of books, written by Pierdomenico Baccalario are based in the hypothetical village of Kilmore Cove near Zennor and St Ives. Helen Dunmore 's novel Zennor in Darkness
1802-414: The greatest number ever taken in one seine was 5,600 hogsheads at St Ives in 1868. The bulk of the catch was exported to Italy: for example, in 1830, 6,400 hogsheads were sent to Mediterranean ports. From 1829 to 1838, the yearly average for this trade was 9,000 hogsheads. While commercial fishing is much reduced, the harbour is still in use, often for recreational boating, tourist fishing and day trips to
1855-552: The improved railway. Bernard Leach and Shōji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in 1920. Leach, who was a studio potter and art teacher and is known as the "Father of British studio pottery", learned pottery under the direction of Shigekichi Urano (Kenzan VI) in Japan where he also met Shōji Hamada. They promoted pottery from the point of view of Western and Eastern arts and philosophies. Leach produced work until 1972, and
1908-448: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lowndes&oldid=997599976 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Alan Lowndes Alan Lowndes (1921–1978)
1961-673: The nearby seal colonies on the Carrack Rocks and other locations along the coast. Recently, a class of Victorian fishing boat unique to St Ives, known as a "jumbo," has been replicated by boatbuilder Jonny Nance to celebrate the town's maritime heritage. Today's jumbos are operated by the St Ives Jumbo Association. The first lifeboat was stationed in the town in 1840. In 1867 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) built
2014-579: The old materials. It is plain and rectangular and has since been converted into the New Gallery. The Roman Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart and St Ia was built in 1909 to a design by A J C Scoles . There are also two Methodist chapels, one in Fore Street of 1831, and another of 1845 higher up the valley, and a Congregational chapel of 1800. J. M. W. Turner arrived in St Ives in 1811. In 1884, James Whistler and Walter Sickert visited on
2067-521: The portreeve to mount the gallows. The portreeve was then hanged for being a "busy rebel". The seal of St Ives is Argent, an ivy branch overspreading the whole field Vert , with the legend Sigillum Burgi St Ives in Com. Cornub. 1690 . During the Spanish Armada of 1597 , two Spanish ships, a bark and a pinnace , had made their way to St Ives to seek shelter from the storm which had dispersed
2120-542: The town had been pushed up to over £320,000, almost 14 times the median annual earnings of someone in Cornwall. In 2019, the Financial Times reported that average house price was £351,800, saying that the new build policy had failed to stem the number of second homes. St Ives also faces a shortage of rentals ; in 2021, while there were over 1,000 properties in the town available for short-term holiday let , there
2173-477: The town. St Ives has been a popular tourist destination since the St Ives Bay Line opened in 1877, allowing visitors to easily get to the town. St Ives has been named the best UK seaside town by The Guardian in 2007, and by the British Travel Awards in 2010 and 2011. In 2020, St Ives was named the most expensive seaside resort in the UK. The town has the second highest visitor-related spend in
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2226-431: The town. The ship was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service. A propeller believed to be from HMS Wave was washed ashore in 2008. In 1999, the town was the first landfall of the solar eclipse of 11 August 1999 . The Tate St Ives displayed an exhibition called As Dark as Light , with art by Yuko Shiraishi, Garry Fabian Miller and local schoolchildren, to celebrate the event. A live BBC programme with
2279-472: The war he studied painting at night school, but was largely self-taught. He began to achieve success in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the period when northern writers such as Stan Barstow , John Braine and Alan Sillitoe were also coming to the fore. He had one man exhibitions in Manchester, London and New York and is represented in many public collections. Although often compared to L. S. Lowry , he
2332-610: Was a British painter known primarily for his scenes of northern life. He also spent time in St Ives , and he was a close friend of many of the St Ives School artists. Lowndes was born in Heaton Norris , Lancashire , a suburb of Stockport in 1921, the fifth child of a railway clerk. He left school at 14, and was apprenticed to a decorator. In World War II he saw active service in South-west Asia and Italy . After
2385-513: Was damage to the church in 1697 when a storm broke through the sea-wall and damaged the roof and a large window over the altar. There are chapels dedicated to St Nicholas on the headland of St Ives Island and St Leonard on the quay which were used by the fishermen and have been converted for other uses. The former chapel of St Nicholas was partially demolished by the War Office in 1904 but rebuilt in 1909, possibly by E. H. Sedding , from
2438-479: Was fouled. The first time it turned over four men were lost; the second time one more; the third time left only one man alive. He scrambled ashore when the boat was wrecked on rocks near Godrevy Point. On 28 July 2007 there was a suspected sighting of a great white shark . The chairman of the Shark Trust said that "it was impossible to make a conclusive identification and that it could have also been either
2491-722: Was founded in 1978 as a joint venture by local entrepreneurs and the International Musicians Seminar. Many local artists open up their studios to allow visitors to see how their art is produced. There is free music in many pubs almost every night, and concerts. Many events are held at the Western Hotel or St Ives Guildhall. St Ives has a 500-seat theatre which hosts some of the festival events. Early-20th-century figures in St Ives appear in Virginia Woolf 's reflections contained in " A Sketch of
2544-437: Was lengthened at a later date. The octagonal lookout with a cupola belongs to Smeaton's design. A. K. Hamilton Jenkin describes how the St Ives fisherman strictly observed Sunday as a day of rest. St Ives was a very busy fishing port and seining was the usual method of fishing. Seining was carried out by a set of three boats of different sizes, the largest two carrying seine nets of different sizes. The total number of crew
2597-484: Was named best seaside town of 2007 by The Guardian newspaper. The origin of St Ives is attributed in legend to the arrival of the Irish saint Ia of Cornwall , in the 5th century. The parish church bears her name, and the name St Ives derives from it. The Sloop Inn , which lies on the wharf was a fisherman's pub for many centuries and is dated to "circa 1312", making it one of the oldest inns in Cornwall. The town
2650-569: Was only one long-term house available to rent. St Ives' local government administration has a two-tier structure, consisting of St Ives Town Council and Cornwall Council , both elected statutory bodies. The first tier of local government in St Ives is the Town Council, with a membership of 16 elected town councillors from three wards. The council is responsible for providing grant funding to local organisations, public footpaths, bus shelters, beach patrols, traffic control and allotments. It
2703-453: Was set up in 1963. In 2010, a BBC Four film, The Art of Cornwall , presented by James Fox said that the St Ives artists "went on to produce some of the most exhilarating art of the twentieth century...for a few dazzling years this place was as famous as Paris, as exciting as New York and infinitely more progressive than London." The programme explored the lives and works of the key figures and their contributions in establishing St Ives as
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#17327717690742756-444: Was seventeen or eighteen. However this came to an end in 1924. In the decade 1747–1756 the total number of pilchards dispatched from the four principal Cornish ports of Falmouth , Fowey , Penzance , and St Ives averaged 30,000 hogsheads annually (making a total of 900 million fish). Much greater catches were achieved in 1790 and 1796. In 1847 the exports of pilchards from Cornwall amounted to 40,883 hogsheads or 122 million fish while
2809-551: Was the site of a particularly notable atrocity during the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549. The English provost marshal , Anthony Kingston , came to St Ives and invited the portreeve , John Payne, to lunch at an inn. He asked the portreeve to have the gallows erected during the course of the lunch. Afterwards the portreeve and the Provost Marshal walked down to the gallows; the Provost Marshal then ordered
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