Roche Rock
Yesterday I went out with fellow photographer Greg Cashmore to lend hand on a workshop he was doing down in Cornwall. We left Plymouth at 6:30am and started our grand tour of the Southern coast. Our first stop was Roche Rock, in the village of Roche. I'd never been here before but I had heard of it. We got there just as the sun was rising and after setting up our cameras we were hit by a big hail shower. This shot was taken minutes before the hail hit, with the rising sun lighting up the rock.
There are several legends attached to this rather spectacular granite outcrop most notably that of Jan Tregeagle, the tortured sinner who tried to find refuge in the chapel here when being chased by demons.
The 15th century chapel on the Roche Rock is said to have been built by a hermit as a cell. The identity of the hermit is not certain but some say he was a shunned leper from the Tregarnick family, whose daughter, St Gundred tended to him.
The chapel is accessible, but only by a steep ladder. Inside it is split into two levels by a further ladder.
Roche Rock
Yesterday I went out with fellow photographer Greg Cashmore to lend hand on a workshop he was doing down in Cornwall. We left Plymouth at 6:30am and started our grand tour of the Southern coast. Our first stop was Roche Rock, in the village of Roche. I'd never been here before but I had heard of it. We got there just as the sun was rising and after setting up our cameras we were hit by a big hail shower. This shot was taken minutes before the hail hit, with the rising sun lighting up the rock.
There are several legends attached to this rather spectacular granite outcrop most notably that of Jan Tregeagle, the tortured sinner who tried to find refuge in the chapel here when being chased by demons.
The 15th century chapel on the Roche Rock is said to have been built by a hermit as a cell. The identity of the hermit is not certain but some say he was a shunned leper from the Tregarnick family, whose daughter, St Gundred tended to him.
The chapel is accessible, but only by a steep ladder. Inside it is split into two levels by a further ladder.