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Planning permission for a new £12.3m extension has recently been granted, which will
allow more space for showing prize pieces from the museum's permanent collection.
Work is scheduled for completion by late 2015.
You can receive a discount of £1 if you arrive by public transport and show your ticket.
Barbara Hepworth Museum
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MUSEUM
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( 01736-796226; Barnoon Hill; adult/child £6/4; 10am-5pm Mar-Oct, 10am-4pm Tue-Sun Nov-Feb)
Barbara
Hepworth was one of the leading abstract sculptors of the 20th century, and a key figure in
the St Ives art scene, so it's fitting that her former studio is now a museum (you can pur-
chase a joint ticket with the Tate St Ives gallery for £10/7 per adult/child). The studio has
remained untouched since her death in a fire in 1975, and the adjoining garden contains
some of her most famous sculptures. Among the shrubs, look out for the harplike Garden
Sculpture (Model for Meridian) and Four Square, the largest work Hepworth created.
Her art is also liberally sprinkled around town; there's a Hepworth outside the Guild-
hall, and her moving Madonna and Child inside St Ia Church commemorates her son Paul
Skeaping, who was killed in an air crash in 1953.
Leach Pottery
( 01736-796398;
www.leachpottery.com
; Higher Stennack; adult/child £5.50/4.50; 10am-5pm Mon-Sat,
11am-4pm Sun)
While Barbara Hepworth was breaking new sculptural ground, the potter
Bernard Leach was hard at work reinventing British ceramics in his studio in Higher Sten-
nack. Drawing inspiration from Japanese and Oriental sculpture, and using a unique hand-
built 'climbing' kiln based on ones he had seen in Japan, Leach's pottery created a unique
fusion of Western and Eastern ideas.
His former studio displays examples of his work, and has been enhanced by a brand-
new
museum
and working pottery studio. The shop contains work by contemporary potters,
as well as souvenirs from the Leach tableware range.
GALLERY
Chapel of St Nicholas
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RELIGIOUS
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On the grassy promontory known as the Island, between Porthmeor and Porthminster, is
the tiny pre-14th-century Chapel of St Nicholas, patron saint of children and sailors. It's
allegedly the oldest church in St Ives - and certainly the smallest.
