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1 TREVENSON CHURCH 6 CARN BREA WORKS 10 POOL 1 RAILWAY INN 5 SITE OF CHILI ROAD 7 ALMS HOUSE Agar Rd, Steam engines were built here Site of the original pool which CHAPEL Illogan Highway for Brunel’s Great Western gave Pool its name. The chapel opened in 1851 and Railway. the organ was built by Hele of 11 PLUME OF FEATHERS CARNCARN BREABREA Plymouth. It soon became Engine built at Carn Brea Works known as the ‘Top Hat Built in PARISHPARISH COUNCILCOUNCIL Church’. Thomas Merritt 1809 by Lord de Dunstanville became organist here. The and Basset to serve the village The Portreath branch line of organ he played and used to of Pool. The Tower contains the Railway crossed the compose his carols was moved Built in 1806 by Lady Frances two bells presented in 1883 by road and the - to St. Andrews Church, Basset of Tehidy as an G.L.Basset Esq. The altarpiece is tram rails at a gated Pencoys, Four Lanes in 1973 Almshouse for four widows or a painting by John Bryant Lane level crossing to the west of the when Chili Road Chapel aged people. It is now two - ‘The Dead Saviour, Virgin and Railway Inn. closed. private houses. Angels’. 7 BRUNTON & CO SAFETY FUSE WORKS The Plume of Feathers 2 TANGYE INSTITUTE Exterior of Chili Road Chapel showing date 8 TOLL HOUSE LADY BASSET’S SCHOOL stone 1850. 2 Circa 1880 Raised by public subscription Blowinghouse Also called the Penhelleck After an accident at Wheal ‘In memory of Factory. William Brunton was Agar in 1883 when a wire rope the Tangye an engineer and inventor. broke, plunging the cage to Family - the bottom of the shaft, the 1920’. James 8 TREVITHICK MEMORIAL bodies of the 12 men that died Tangye was This marks the birthplace of were taken to the Plume of responsible Richard Trevithick 1771-1883 Feathers for the Coroner’s for the Rebuilt in 1864, it bears the pioneer of the high pressure inquest. pumping up In 1844 Lady Frances Basset date stone 1843, having engine and the first self- of water and originally been erected at the financed the schoolroom at the propelled passenger carrying 12 TREVENSON HOUSE installing the rear of Trevenson Church as a bottom of the valley, before vehicle. This was the residence of the working school for boys. It is built of the embankment for the stewards of the Basset Estate. apparatus for Tolgarrick red stone with a Turnpike Road was built. The original house was said to Mary’s Well Interior of Chili Road Chapel with round window and it was have been built around 1662. and probably the other water- Merritt’s Organ. formerly the vestry and stable 9 ST. EUNY WELL Thomas Kevill, Steward to worked scheme nearby. of the church. St. Euny Well - original source of water for Lord de Dunstanville, rebuilt James Tangye, Inventor. Born 1825. Carn Brea Village. 3 GIRL’S SCHOOL AND the house on an improved SCHOOL HOUSE plan in 1797. It was still 3 SIR RICHARD TANGYE’S This was also financed by Lady further improved by his BIRTHPLACE Frances Basset in 1845 and is successor in the stewardship, FURTHER INFORMATION Was situated at the junction of also built of the red stone. This Mr. Reynolds. Broadlane and Spar is now Trevenson Social Club Lane. Sir Richard 6 ILLOGAN HIGHWAY but the sign is still over the door 9 BASSET LITERARY Ordnance Survey Map Explorer 1:2500 Tangye (1833- METHODIST CHURCH of the adjoining schoolhouse. INSTITUTE Sheet no. 104, Redruth and St Agnes 1906) was one Thomas Merritt was organist Patron was John Francis Basset Public Transport Information of five brothers here from 1889 until his death 4 SIR EDWARD Esq. and the foundation stone Bus Service: 0870 6082608 • Train: 08457 48 49 50 who set up a in 1908. The original chapel is St. Euny founded a religious NICHOLL 1862-1939 was laid in 1878 by five year old Coach, National Express: 08705 80 80 80 huge the present day Sunday School settlement by his well at the Arthur Francis Basset, who was building. Camborne-Redruth How to get there engineering foot of Carn Brea around 500 the last Basset at Tehidy when works at UDC erected a plaque in his AD. Baptism with water from By Car: Take A3047 from Redruth or Camborne the estate was sold in 1916. Birmingham. memory on the chapel. the holy well was believed to Distances: Camborne 2 miles, Redruth 2 miles Original chapel, built 1889 is on the left. safeguard against hanging. A Illustrations: Betty Rule Sir Richard Tangye,1833 -1906 stone cross formerly stood near it. Research: Councillor Diana Cousins 4 THOMAS MERRITT’S Photographs kindly supplied by Paddy Bradley BIRTHPLACE 10 THE OLD WORKHOUSE MP, ship-owner, engineer, local Funded by Awards for All Thomas Merritt was born in Druid’s Lodge was the old philanthropist and inventor Grateful thanks to the Community Regeneration Team Broadlane Illogan in 1863. He Illogan Workhouse before the was born at 4 Fore Street, Pool, and Michael Tangye for their help and support played the organ at Chili Road Union Workhouse was built at (originally 4 Agar Terrace.) He and Illogan Highway Chapels Barncoose in 1840. was knighted in 1916 and Carn Brea Parish Council and composed many works. elected MP for Penryn and Treloweth Community Hall, Moorfield Rd, He will be best remembered for Falmouth in 1918. He donated Pool, Redruth TR15 3QB his Cornish Carols which are £5,000 to the Miner’s Hospital T 01209 313014 • F 01209 217239 • E sung all over the world, and land for playgrounds at [email protected] wherever the Cornish settled. Foundry Row, Redruth. He died in 1908 aged 46. 5 TURNPIKE MILESTONE 18th Century milestone from the toll road shows P16 L26 - 16 miles to and 26 miles to PARIS Land’s End. SH TRAILS