Chynhale

{{Short description|Hamlet in Cornwall, England}}

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| official_name = Chynhale

| civil_parish = Sithney

| country = England

| region = South West England

| coordinates = {{coord|50.1305|-5.3014|display=title}}

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| unitary_england = Cornwall

| lieutenancy_england = Cornwall

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| static_image = Chynhale Methodist Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 2360435.jpg

| static_image_caption = Chynale Methodist Church in 2011

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Chynhale is a hamlet {{Convert|2|mi|km}} north west of Helston, Cornwall, England, in the civil parish of Sithney.{{Cite web |title=Chynhale, Cornwall - area information, map |url=https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/chynhale-cornwall/ |access-date=2024-02-13 |website=OS GetOutside |language=en-gb}}

Chynale Methodist Church was built of granite in 1879 to the design of Redruth-based architect, James Hicks. It is Grade II listed.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1142167|desc=Chynhale Methodist Church |access-date=21 February 2024|mode=cs2}} The entrance gates, pillars and flanking walls are separately listed. The gates were cast at the Tuckingmill Foundry.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1142168|desc=Gate piers, gates and flanking walls south of Chynhale Methodist Church |access-date=21 February 2024|mode=cs2}} The church building is closed for worship. The final church service was announced for Easter Sunday 2015.{{Cite web |date=2015-03-19 |title=Last service at Chynhale Methodist Church after 136 years of worship |url=https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/11864376.last-service-at-chynhale-methodist-church-after-136-years-of-worship/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=Falmouth Packet |language=en}} In 2022, a proposal was made to remove the church's Sweetland organ and relocate it in St Mark’s Anglican Church, Florence, Italy.{{Cite web |date=2022-06-19 |title=Rare Italian church organ to be removed returned to home country |url=https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/20220720.chynhale-church-sithney-organ-moved-italy/ |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=Falmouth Packet |language=en}}

In 1911 at a public meeting presided over by the chairman of Sithney parish council it was stated that 82 children were on the roll for Chynhale School and it had capacity for 132, but the County Education Committee had decided it was to be closed.{{Cite news |date=6 July 1911 |title=Educational burdens: New school in Sithney district |page=7 |work=West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser |issue=5265 |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000349/19110706/007/0007 |url-access=subscription |access-date=21 February 2024 |via=British Newspaper Archive}}