- Wikidata identifier:
- Q17532838
- Also known as:
- Lawrence House and Museum and Forecourt Wall
- Instance of:
- museum building
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 971
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q17532838/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Fine Art Collection
This collection comprises oils and watercolours including watercolours of local bridges by Otho Peter. There are miniatures of the Lawrence family, the original owners of the house.
Subjects
Fine Art
Costume and Textile Collection
This collection comprises costume, lace and samplers. There is a reconstructed Victorian dressing room.
Subjects
Costume and Textile
Decorative and Applied Art Collection
The collection includes period furniture. There is also a bust of John Couch Adams, the astronomer who discovered the planet Neptune in 1846. The bust was sculpted by Neville Burnard who was born at Altarnun in 1818.
Subjects
Decorative and Applied Arts
Social History Collection
This collection comprises domestic bygones and well as much local history material relating to the town, including artefacts relating to the castle, the Augustinian priory; family and commercial history; local mining; and militaria. There is Methodist memorabilia: John Wesley, founder of Methodism, visited the town a total of 32 times.
Subjects
Social History
Other
Archives; Arms and Armour; Agriculture; Photography
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC