Where land meets sea

Cornwall

the southwest's wildest coastline and most breathtakingly beautiful beaches

 Since 2006, Cornwall's historic mining areas have formed part of the UK's newest Unesco World Heritage Site, the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape

 

St Materiana's Church, Tintagel

St Materiana's Church, Tintagel the 11th century church

 

Little is known of Materiana, but she may equate to Madryn, a 5th century Princess of Gwent who preached in north Cornwall around the year AD 500. Tintagel church is thought to have been founded as a daughter church of nearby Minster, the only other British church dedicated to Materiana. The first church was an oratory served by monks from Minster, where the saint is said to have been buried. The oratory was replaced by a Saxon stone church and the site was used heavily as a Christian graveyard over the years 500-700.

There was an early 6th century church on the clifftops, but the present building dates to the late 11th century, though it incorporates earlier Saxon features. The tower is several centuries later, perhaps a product of the 13th century. The north and south doorways are Norman, while the north porch is 14th century. The north doorway iron hinges are thought to be 12th century originals

Camelot Castle Hotel

Wonderful location, Amazing victorian building. Camelot Castle Hotel is a leading Cornwall Hotel
location on the Cornish coastline.

 In 1894, A Company was formed by Sir Robert Harvey an Entrepreneur, who made his fortune in South American mining, to build Camelot Castle. Designed by Silvanus Trevail, a leading Victorian architect of the day, the castle was completed and opened at Easter 1899, taking five years to complete. Camelot Castle was one of the most sought after destinations and places to stay in the Victorian and Edwardian world. Films such as ‘Knights of the Round Table’ starring Ava Gardner, ‘Dracula’, starring Sir Laurence Olivier and many others have been filmed here in Camelot Castle

more about history; http://www.camelotcastle.com/history.htm

Tintagel Old Post Office

The Old Post Office is a traditional 14th-century house built for a yeoman farmer. Its most obvious feature is an undulating roof of slate tiles with a profile that looks rather like waves on the sea.

The Post Office was begun around 1380 as a longhouse, under a thatched roof. The longhouse design was quite simple; the long rectangle of the interior space was divided into three chambers, open to the roof, and joined by a through-passage.

One end was used for animals, while the central section had a hearth for warmth and cooking, with the smoke escaping directly through the thatched roof above. In the 16th century, the thatched roof was replaced by local slate, and a fireplace and chimney inserted in the central chamber. Bedrooms were added in both the north and south ends.

During the 19th century one room of the house was briefly used as a 'letter receiving station'; the fore-runner of a village post office. Inside the house are displays of Victorian-era postal equipment, but most of the interior is given over to a recreation of family life over the centuries, with some pieces of 16th-century furniture, and a collection of hand-made samplers.

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