Treslothan Village

Treslothan is a beautiful example of a commissioned and designed model 19th century hamlet.  The hamlet makes a wonderful blueprint for building an attractive village complete with church and school, builders and planners of today should take note! The buildings are beautiful, one can appreciate the architectural sense of play and delight.  The integration of building, gardens, woods and community space helps to create an atmosphere which is not exclusive but warm.  Neither does it look as if it was planned by some public 'body' or 'quango'. 

'Treslothan: All that remains of the grand estate of the Pendarves family, whose classic mansion and planted parks have disappeared, is this little early Victorian enclave among beech trees and park walls.  It consists of Tudor style village school and parsonage and lancet style church, all by George Wightwick, 1841.  They are a pretty group in silvery granite.  Inside, the church was skinned in 1880, but is rather impressive.  It has a fifteenth century font from Camborne.  Beside the Church is a elaborate Gothic Mausoleum of the Pendarves Family.(1854)  John Betjeman 'A Shell Guide to Cornwall.'  Faber & Faber 1964 

'There can be only one opinion of the beauty of the village outside the Church.  It is one of the prettiest spots in the whole neighbourhood.  In the centre stands the Cross which has been lately adapted to form the Parochial War memorial to those who fell in the Great War'  J. Sims Carah, Vicar of Penponds and Vice-President Old Cornwall Societies, 'The Parish of Camborne' 1924