The Mermaid of Zennor bench end in Zennor Church, Cornwall. Around 1925
Royal Cornwall Museum Photo Prints and Wall Art
The Mermaid of Zennor bench end in Zennor Church, Cornwall. Around 1925
A captain of a ship anchored off Pendower Cove believed that he was hailed by a mermaid and the people of Zennor had a mermaid figure carved on a bench end in Zennor Church as a warning to young men against smiling pon the maidens in church. Glass lantern slide from a lecture, entitled Some Historic Cornish Beauty Spots, given by Cornishman and amateur photographer, Major Arthur William Gill, in around 1925. He was well known in Cornwall and elsewhere during the 1920s and 1930s for his presentations of stills and cine film to many groups including The Royal Institution of Cornwall, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society and the London Cornish Society. The quarter plate slides which he took prolifically with his ordinary camera are, in many cases, colour. These were painted by his own hand to great effect
TRURI : 1990.2.12.25a
Media ID 11513547
© From the collection of the RIC
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