St Anthony's Lighthouse

St Anthony's Lighthouse
Cornwall
St Anthony's Lighthouse
Location
Location:	St Anthony Head
Grid reference:	SW846311
Location:	50°8’28"N, 5°-0’58"E
Characteristics
Height:	62 feet
Tower marking:	white tower and lantern
Light:	Iso WR 15s.
Intensity:	white: 210,000 candela red 42,000 candela
Range:	white: 22 nautical miles red: 20 nautical miles
Admiralty No.:	A0062
History
	Built 1835
Information
Owned by:	Trinity House

St Anthony's Lighthouse is a lighthouse standing on St Anthony Head, on the eastern side of the entrance to the Carrick Roads in Cornwall. The light serves to protect ships entering and leaving Carrick Roads, the roadstead before Falmouth and which one of the largest natural harbours in the world.

History

The lighthouse was built in 1835 by Olver of Falmouth, for Trinity House and the original light came from eight Argand oil lamps. The light source was changed to pressure vapour and later to electricity when electricity was connected in 1954. Today the light is automated, flashing every 15 seconds, with a red sector for The Manacles rocks and a range of 22 miles. The fog horn blasts once every 30 seconds.

When the fog bell was dismantled in 1954 which hung from the gallery at the front of the tower it was donated to a local church but, after many years of sitting on the church front lawn, was taken away to be melted down.

Popular culture

St Anthony's lighthouse was featured in the British version of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, as "Fraggle Rock Lighthouse" in external scenes. Nearby St Mawes also featured in some scenes from the programme.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about St Anthony's Lighthouse)

• St Anthony's Lighthouse at Trinity House