Trevenson

Trevenson House 2018

Trevenson Chapel, Church of England

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Map showing the location of Trevenson within Cornwall

Trevenson (Cornish : Trevensyn) ^[1] is in the parish of Carn Brea, between the towns of Camborne and Redruth in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

Trevenson House

Trevenson House was built in 1797 for Thomas Kevill, a steward of the Tehidy estate and replaced an earlier house on the site. Trevenson House is a Grade II listed building. Further information regarding the history can be found here. ^[2] It is now part of iCT4 Limited ^[3] being run as serviced offices and conferencing facilities for the community.

Trevenson Chapel

Tevenson Chapel was built in 1806–09 as a Church of England chapel-of-ease in the parish of Illogan. The chapel has a thin castellated west tower; the pointed windows are of granite with cast iron tracery. This tracery has been replaced with modern replicas. ^{[4] [5]}

Education

The area is home to Cornwall College, an A level centre and Pool School. Trevenson used to be home to the Camborne School of Mines between 1970 and 2004. It has since moved to a new campus in Penryn called Tremough.

Cornish wrestling

Trevenson Park was the venue for Cornish wrestling tournaments for prizes ^[6] including the Interceltic games in 1929. ^[7]

References

• Cornwall portal

1. Place-names in the Standard Written Form (SWF)  : List of place-names agreed by the MAGA Signage Panel. Cornish Language Partnership.
2. "TREVENSON HOUSE, CAMBORNE POOL REDRUTH COLLEGE, Carn Brea - 1392498 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
3. "Conferencing & meeting space in Camborne Pool Redruth". Trevenson House. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
4. Pevsner, N. (1970) Cornwall; 2nd ed., revised by Enid Radcliffe. Harmondsworth: Penguin; p. 143
5. St Illogan; Trevenson Church History
6. West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, 15 July 1937.
7. Western Morning News, 2 September 1929.

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