3.87kW System – Camborne Parish Church
We are delighted to have just completed the 3.87kW PV installation of 18 panels on the Cecil Norman building for Camborne Parish Church. This part funded project by Camborne Parish Church, the Low Carbon Building Programme and the National Lottery has just been commissioned by Natural Generation.
The system consists of 18 Sanyo 215 High performance Hybrid panels and a SMA Sunny Boy 4000 inverter on a fibre cement south facing roof of the Cecil Norman Building in the grounds of Camborne Church. This community building is forecast to produce over 3000kWh of electricity per annum for the benefit of the many groups using the building including a daily drop in for homeless, migrant workers and travellers (washing machine/shower facilities), other agencies including CAB, Probation, Samaritans and MIND.
It’s built in a section of the graveyard consecrated in 1839 and was named after Mr Cecil Norman, a regular member of the Camborne Parish Church congregation who lived at a bungalow called Pendle in Weeth Road, Camborne. Nigel ‘decided’ that when the new centre was opened it should be called after him as he had done a lot of youth work, quietly, over a period of many years. The building was initially a Youth Centre for Camborne Church and was opened in the early 1980s, after the Church Treasurer, Gloria Beeching, raised a lot of money for it, with various grants.
The Church hall was opened in 1963 to replace the old hall in Trelowarren Street, opened as a Mission Church in 1885, on a site given by the Vyvyan family. The hall is built in a pre 1815 portion of the churchyard used as the burial ground since the Middle Ages.
