Lanherne House

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Private Residence

Site Name: Lanherne House
Location: Lanherne House
County: Cornwall
Location Type: Countryside - at determined location
http://www.plymouth-diocese.org.uk/parishes/cornwall/lanherne.htm

Overview

The former home of the 'great Arundells' is located beside the main road through the village of St Mawgan in a lovely wooded valley near the N coast a few miles from St Columb Major.

The 2 parallel ranges of the Tudor house have been altered and extended in later centuries, but the Elizabethan facade remains. The interior has been adapted for use by Carmelite nuns.

Performance History

Probable performance venue. Although relevant family papers do not survive, entertainers patronized by several generations of the Arundell family performed elsewhere in Devon in the 15th and 16th c.

Current Status

Now the enclosed Franciscan monastery of Sts Joseph and Anne. The chapel serves as the Roman Catholic parish church of St Mawgan in Pydar.

History of the Venue

12xx Sir Remphrey Arundell of Treby and Trembleth acquired Lanherne via marriage to Lady Alice Fulcard.

early 16th c. First slatestone rubble Tudor range with granite dressings built, possibly incorporating earlier fabric.

mid-16th c. Parallel outer range built.

ca. 1579 Household dispersed after the imprisonment of Sir John Arundell for recusant sympathies.

17th c. Additions made.

ca. 1700 Coursed stone rubble rear range built beyond a central courtyard.

1794 Henry, 8th Baron Arundell of Wardour gave Lanherne to serve as a Carmelite convent for English nuns emigrating from a house founded in Flanders during the Reformation.

19th c. Chapel added to the outer range.

Record Source

REED Devon 35, 214, 228

Patrons who owned this venue

Name Dates Titles
Arundell, John 1421-1473 Knight
Arundell, John 1474-1545 Knight
Arundell, John 1500-1557 Knight
Arundell, Thomas 1452-1485 Knight

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Carew, Richard. Richard Carew of Antony: The Survey of Cornwall. F.E. Halliday, ed. London: Andrew Melrose, 1953.
  • Davies, Gilbert. The Parochial History of Cornwall. 4 vols. London: J.B. Nichols & Son, 1838.
  • Gill, Crispin. The Great Cornish Families: A History of the People and their Homes. 1995. Tiverton: Cornwall Books, 2000.
  • Lanherne: Discalced Carmelite Convent. The Oldest Carmel in England. St Columb: Edyvean Printers, nd.
  • Lysons, Daniel and Samuel. Magna Britannia; being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain. 6 vols. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806–22.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus. Cornwall. Radcliffe, Enid, rev. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth, Midd: Penguin Books, 1970.
  • Turner, Thomas Hudson, and John Henry Parker. Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England, from Richard II. to Henry VIII. 3 vols (vol 3 in 2 pts). Oxford: John Henry and James Parker, 1851–9.