Trevithick Memorial Set in Wall Beside Road, Opposite Nos. 33 and 35
TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS.33 AND 35, TEHIDY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328166
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trevithick Memorial Set in Wall Beside Road, Opposite Nos. 33 and 35
- Statutory Address:
- TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS.33 AND 35, TEHIDY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328166
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trevithick Memorial Set in Wall Beside Road, Opposite Nos. 33 and 35
- Statutory Address 1:
- TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS.33 AND 35, TEHIDY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TREVITHICK MEMORIAL SET IN WALL BESIDE ROAD, OPPOSITE NOS.33 AND 35, TEHIDY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW6464440470
Details
CAMBORNE TEHIDY ROAD
SW 64 SW
(east side)
4/91
Trevithick Memorial set in wall
beside road, opposite Nos.33 and 35
II
Wall plaque set up in 1919 to commemorate the site where Richard
Trevithick assembled and began the first trial run of the first locomotive
in 1801. Bronze plaque in chamfered granite ashlar frame. Landscape-
format rectangle approx. 1/2 metre wide, with a picture of the locomotive
in relief, and a raised inscription:-
IN MEMORY OF
RICHARD TREVITHICK
TO COMMEMORATE THE SITE WHERE THE
FIRST LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE
WAS ASSEMBLED BY HIM AND FROM WHERE IT
WAS STARTED ON ITS HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL RUN
TO BEACON HILL CHRISTMAS EVE 1801
ALSO NEAR THIS SPOT WAS THE ONCE FAMOUS
WELL OF ST MERIADOC SUPPOSED TO POSSESS
HEALING QUALITIES OF GREAT VIRTUE
PEACE DAY JULY 19TH 1919
Listing NGR: SW6464440470
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66639
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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