When did Nicholas Prideaux build Prideaux Place Padstow?
Later the family moved to Devon and it was in the 16th century that Sir Nicholas Prideaux, a distinguished lawyer, returned to Cornwall and built Prideaux Place, completing it in 1592. The Elizabethan manor house still presides over the fishing port of Padstow with views of the Camel Estuary.
Who are the members of the Prideaux family?
Prideaux Place as seen today is almost entirely the work of three members of the family. Sir Nicholas Prideaux in the 16th century, Edmund Prideaux in the 18th century and the Rev Charles Prideaux-Brune in the early 19th century.
Where does Prideaux Place take place in Cornwall?
Prideaux Place is set in an endlessly beautiful part of North Cornwall and stands above the pretty old fishing port of Padstow.
When did Humphrey Fortescue move to Prideaux Place?
He built the present mansion house at Prideaux Place in 1592, and moved his residence there after 1600 when he granted Solden to his eldest son Humphrey on the latter’s marriage to Honor Fortescue. Prideaux Place was built just above the fishing-port village of Padstow and in about 1602 the historian of Cornwall Richard Carew wrote:
