Wandering along the Georgian granite-paved streets of Truro to the cathedral one is gripped by a sense of its ancient past.
Truro is Britain’s most southerly city, in a county which once enjoyed tremendous revival at the time of John Wesley. It is reckoned that as much as half of the population of Cornwall were at one time true believers. However, while Wesley evangelised the rest of the county, for many years he ignored what was then the significant stannary town of Truro. Why? Because it was already very well-served by the revivalist Anglican minister Samuel Walker, through whom phenomenal gospel work was done in and around the town.
Vibrant Christian presence
Two and half centuries later, the city of Truro may be a far cry from such exceptional times of revival, yet it now enjoys a vibrant Christian presence, in what has until recently been regarded as a spiritually barren county.
