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Commander George Fagan Bradshaw, a marine painter, proposed the society in January 1927 to raise the standards of the St Ives colony; since 1945 it has shown in the former Mariners' Church on Norway Square, a building that had spent the war requisitioned as a field hospital. The main body of the church is the Mariners' Gallery, hung with work by around eighty member artists with links to Cornwall — paintings, prints, carving and sculpture; the Crypt beneath, the room the modernists showed in before walking out in 1949 to found the Penwith Society, now takes visiting exhibitions. Three member shows a year, with a Christmas open exhibition to close it.