Ilfracombe. The entrance to the harbour ([1850?])
William Spreat
| Repository | Library | Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Devon | West Country Studies | L SC1241 |
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SC1241
Location
CD 20 DVD 3
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Anonymous. Recollections of a ramble on the coast of North Devon in the year 1858. Manuscript. p. 37.The harbour of Ilfracombe is almost entirely natural: a rampart of projecting rocks, parallel with the shore, forms of itself a quiet basin, well adapted for the reception of vessels, and their security has been further provided for, by the erection of a pier. At the entrance of the harbour upon a jutting peninsular rock, called Lantern Hill, stands a dilapidated little building formerly a chapel, dedicated to S. Nicholas, the Patron Saint of sea-faring men, - now retaining no feature of its ancient use, beyond its outline and proportions, which are apparently its original ones, - and employed, (on the principle, I presume, that "cleanliness is next to godliness,") as a washhouse and laundry. In place of a bell gable, it bears an octagonal lantern, whence a light is displayed for the guidance of vessels approaching the harbour. This last is unusually clean, and free from 'disagreeables,' and the same may be said of the entire town.[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Format
Lithograph
Dimensions
192x307mm
Aspects
Entrance
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Dates
1850