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c1800

The Chapel of Ease by HP Tremenheere c1800. Showing the great stone building occupied by Mr Dennis (architect and builder, later bankers), the trees hide Mr Oxnam's House. To the right are a series of cottages which became the east side of the road (second house from the right is approximately the site of The Yacht Inn). There are four fields. Roughly speaking, below the chapel is the Burial Ground, to the left of which is the site of Regent Square, the two foremost fields became Regent Terrace. In front of the stone hedge is a lane, an area of sand dune, and another pathway leads to the seafront, clearly blocked to prevent horse and cart traffic. From the angle of drawing, I estimate Mr Tremenheere was standing to the north of where South Terrace would later end on the east.
I wish I could go back to 1800s Pz to see this! (Of course I d take my camera!) This shows a history I might never have known. Thank you.
 
The steeple was whitewashed (described in 1827 by Hitchins). The main road from Marazion to Newlyn came up Abbey Street and passed to the left of the picture.
 

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