Sepia albumen print

Acc.no: PEZPH : 2016.50.324

Identification

Item: Chymorvah (Marazion) Cornwall

Description: A view from Turnpike Hill above Chymorvah, towards Marazion and St Michael's Mount. Chymorvah was built in the 1850s, a commission by Richard Rooke Michell (1810-1872) a mining entrepreneur, who already had a large family and lived in a spacious but crowded Georgian House nearer Marazion (Old Eastcliffe House, built about the same time). His eldest son and daughter were planning their weddings and he built this huge pair of houses on the Eastern Cliffs and gave them one each. The properties were perfectly mirrored and only joined on the lower ground floor to enable the servants to move freely from one to the other. The accommodation was on the top floors on both houses, but because there was only one staircase for use by the family, the servants would have to be down before the family rose each morning. the 'double folly' beyond the greenhouses had access to the beach from each half. The Michells were wealthy mine owners & smelters at one time and the last Michell connected with Chymorvah and (Old) Eastcliffe House is understood to have been Colonel Richard Radford Michell (Indian Army) then of Eastcliffe House who died on 15.7.1967

Condition: Good

Description

Material: Photographic paper

Production

Method: Printed

Category: Photography

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