Blackwater Literary Institute

CHACEWATER BLACKWATER SW 74 NW 1/50 Blackwater Literary Institute - GV II Literary Institute. 1889. Built for John Passmore Edwards (donor). Killas with granite quoins and sills and brick jambs and arches. Dry Delabole slate roofs, half- hipped ends to front range, otherwise with gable ends. Alternate crested and pierced clay ridge tiles and terminal finials. Polychrome brick chimneys over side walls. Rectangular plan with entrance projection, wing to rear, left (west) with attached room to north. Single storey. Symmetrical 4-window south west front. Plinth and hoodmoulds over openings. Central round-headed entrance in projecting gabled bay with inscribed plaque over doorway. Flanking paired and segmental arched window openings with stopped chamfers. Original segmental arched sashes with marginal panes of coloured glass. Interior not inspected. At the opening ceremony in 1890 the donor said, "Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to give this to my native village, and within a hundred yards of my old home where memories of boyhood cling around the place". (The Life and Good Works of John Passmore Edwards by R.S. Best). This is the first of many gifts to Cornwall by Passmore Edwards and appropriately to the inhabitants of Blackwater, his place of birth.

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