Rame Head Rame Head
Map researched and drawn by student Kelly Nott. The Rame Head Heritage Gateway is a £248,000 National Heritage Lottery Funded project led by St Mary’s Church, Sheviock, on the Rame Peninsula overlooking the Tamar estuary in east Cornwall. The project will create a heritage visitor centre for the Rame peninsula while celebrating its continued use as a parish church.The Gateway project has involved staff and students working on the design and content for interpretation points, maps, leaflets, childrens’ trail and new furniture for the church.
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The tithe barn with the spire of St. Mary's, Sheviock, to the rear. Staff and students have researched and designed five interpretation points in and around the site that tell different stories about the church and the people who have built, used and lived around it over more than seven hundred years.
Artwork by student Kelly Nott for one of the banners inside the church illustrating the recumbent stone effigy of Lady Emmeline Dawney to show the colours in which the sculpture was originally painted based on remaining traces.
Excerpt of text from one of the interpretation points inside the church telling the story of the effigies and the marriage of Sir Richard Courtenay and Lady Emmeline Dawney in the fourteenth century who together commissioned much of the present day church.
Contact us: daniel.maudlin@plymouth.ac.uk