Trethurgy is a village in the parish of

Treverbyn Treverbyn is a civil parish and village in mid-Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, lying north of St Austell. The parish includes the villages of Treverbyn, Carclaze, Stenalees, Penwithick, Bugle (the largest of these), Rescorla, Kerrow Moor, ...

Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...

, England, United Kingdom. It is about two miles northeast of

St Austell Saint Austell (, ; ) is a town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, south of Bodmin and west of the border with Devon. At the 2021 Census in the United Kingdom, census it had a population of 20,900. History St Austell was a village centred ...

. Carne Farm, Trethurgy is the birthplace of

Silvanus Trevail Silvanus Trevail (11 November 1851 – 7 November 1903) was a British architect, and the most prominent Cornish architect of the 19th century. Early life Trevail was born at Carne Farm, Trethurgy, in the parish of Luxulyan, Cornwall on 11 No ...

, a president of the

Society of Architects The Society of Architects was formed in 1884 and continued until 1925. At that time Fellows and Associates comprised two distinct classes of membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). They were respectively entitled to use th ...

and the architect of many well known Cornish hotels such as the

Headland Hotel The Headland Hotel is a Grade II listed building located in Newquay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was opened in June 1900 and is built on a prominent position overlooking Fistral Beach and Towan Head. History Silvanus Trevail's Gre ...

Newquay Newquay ( ; ) is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is a civil parishes in England, civil parish, seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries with an airport and a spaceport, and a fishing port on t ...

and the

Carbis Bay Hotel Carbis Bay Hotel is a hotel in Carbis Bay near St Ives, Cornwall. It is the most prominent building in Carbis Bay, overlooking the beach. History It was built in 1894 by Silvanus Trevail, Cornwall's most notable architect of the 19th century. ...

Carbis Bay Carbis Bay (Cornish: ''Karrbons'', meaning "causeway") is a seaside resort and village in Cornwall, England. It lies southeast of St Ives, Cornwall, St Ives, on the western coast of St Ives Bay, on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The Sou ...

.Best, R. S. ''The life and good works of John Passmore Edwards'', with an appendix on the architect Silvanus Trevail, who designed nine

Passmore Edwards John Passmore Edwards (24 March 1823 – 22 April 1911)ODNB article by A. J. A. Morris, 'Edwards, John Passmore (1823–1911)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 200 accessed 15 Nove ...

buildings (pp.47-48). Dyllansow Truran (1982) .

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