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No, the picture is the right way up; I was surprised to find this only recently, all things considered. It has been re-used, but not as it should be. The face of the stone was carefully worked to a fairly flat surface in a circle, and then the C was finely chiselled. I have no idea (well maybe I have) of its original siting; Please tell me where it is in Penzance. I will say no more, squire, clues can be offered now and then.
Queen Street? ... Negatory .... I am expecting many guesses, considering I only this last week found it.
 
Not the wall of St Anthony s Gardens, though that is made of some considerable numbers of square cut stone from the original chapel, together with a piece of one of the stone figures, and another piece is down on the lower level seated recess. Other stone is from the area of Batten s Wharf and the housing tenements and stores etc. I doubt that any stone was brought in to create those walls.
 
Excellent, Coinagehall Street it is. On the end of the wall which has been re-built along Barbican Lane, it is at the scruffy car park by the Gallery. Very near what was the site of St Anthony s Chapel. The C is the same cut shape as the three Cs in Quay Street, so I suspect it was connected with that building. Three points to you ...
 
Remember that George Bateman kept a boat there in the winter - Bateman s yard ? was one of those classic ones with a Meadows engine
 

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