Rudyard's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Peter Brown

Peter Brown

Sheds and instrument platforms can be seen on the skyline grouped around an existing small church tower

Above are two coats of arms and several figures

with the Rotunda behind

Belle Sauvage Inn

Rudyard's Lighthouse on the Eddystone Rocks Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Peter BrownDepiction of the south elevation and section of the second lighthouse built upon the Eddystone Rocks, near Plymouth, following the destruction in 1703 of Henry Winstanley's first version. This second lighthouse, a conical wooden structure built around a core of brick and concrete, was constructed under the management of the silk merchant and property developer John Rudyard (or Rudyerd; 1650 ca. 1718). It was completed in 1709 and destroyed by a fire