Gwenapp Pit

Thanks to Sarah (friend of the site) for finding this and noting the Wikipedia article:

On 6 September 1762 John Wesley came to Gwennap and attracted a great crowd of copper tin miners. Unfortunately the day was very windy and Wesley could not make himself heard. Someone suggested the shelter of Gwennap Pit, about 1.5 miles away, so the whole crowd walked there and Wesley was able to preach his sermon. Wesley’s Journal records, “The wind was so high that I could not stand at the usual place at the village of Gwennap; but a small distance was a hollow capable of containing many thousands of people. I stood on one side of this amphitheatre towards the top and with people beneath on all sides, I enlarged on those words in the gospel for the day, ‘Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see….hear the things that ye hear.'”

He continued to use the Pit for a total of 18 times. The pit provides comfortable seating for 2,000. His final visit was in 1789.

The white concrete is known as the Wesley pulpit.