In the 1830s the small village of Carharrack grew dramatically due to the boom in tin and copper mining. The Church began to look at how it might address this growth, but it wasn’t until the 1880s that the village got its own church. Dedicated to St Piran, the patron saint of miners the church was for years a mission church to the parish of Gwennap. After a brief spell in the 1930s when the church was closed, it was re-opened in the 1940s as a mission church to St Day. The church has no graveyard of its own and most burials now take place at Frogpool Cemetery.