{"id":10552,"date":"2017-07-13T11:01:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T10:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/?page_id=10552"},"modified":"2017-07-13T11:01:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T10:01:28","slug":"castle-hill-house","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/the-place\/buildings-of-launceston\/castle-hill-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Castle Hill House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Castle Hill House, Castle Street.
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Built around 1788 for Mr Thomas Jago, of an old Cornish family, who moved to Launceston and set up as a solicitor in the town.\u00a0 Thomas Jago married Catherine Bolt on 7th<\/sup> September 1774.\u00a0 His grave is beside the porch of St Mary\u2019s<\/a>, covered with a large slate slab, now broken: – Thomas Jago, Attorney at Law \u2013 died August 13th<\/sup> 1814 aged 72 years \u2013 Mary Jago daughter of the said Thomas Jago died \u2013 May 15th<\/sup> 1818 aged 34 years.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Thomas’s son, Francis Vyvyan Jago, was born here in 1780, and he was educated at Liskeard Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford.<\/p>\n

He was ordained curate at East Antony, where he showed his love for antiquarian study, but was soon instituted to Landulph in 1805.\u00a0 Jago showed great interest in the history of the area and wrote about Landulph Church and Theodore Palaeologus<\/a>, descendant of the last Christian Emperor of the East, who was buried there.<\/p>\n

In 1815, Jago assumed the name of Arundell on the grounds that one of his ancestors married a co-heiress of John Arundell of Trevamore.<\/p>\n

For fourteen years, from 1822, he was Chaplain to the British Factory at Smyrna, and while engaged there explored the Middle East.\u00a0 In 1826, he travelled through Asian Minor, making a pilgrimage to the seven churches of Asia Minor and Piridia, about which he wrote in 1828.\u00a0 Then in 1833, he made another tour, and published, in 1834, the two volumes describing his discoveries.\u00a0 A third tour was made, 1835\/6, but he published no account.<\/p>\n

While in Asia Minor he made a renowned collection of antiquities and coins, which he sold to the British Museum on his return to this country. He contemplated a History of Cornwall, but instead gave valuable help to the Lysons brothers, who published a history later.<\/p>\n

Arundell, as he is now called, died in Landulph in 1846, and was buried in the Church there.<\/p>\n

Wednesday 21st<\/sup> August 1833<\/em>, the house was put up for auction: description:<\/p>\n

\u201cAll that Capital Brick Built MANSION House with the Coach-House & Stables, Fruit & Flower Gardens\u201d by the widow of John Cudlipp, Esq, MD.<\/p>\n

The house was occupied by the medical profession for around\u00a0 140 years, as well as being the accommodation for the Lawrence’s when they used Lawrence House<\/a> for their offices.<\/p>\n

The last doctor occupier was Dr O\u2019Conner who retired and moved to Prospect House (next the Town Hall) in 1977.<\/p>\n

Visits: 240<\/p>\n

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. Built around 1788 for Mr Thomas Jago, of an old Cornish family, who moved to Launceston and set up as a solicitor in the town.\u00a0 Thomas Jago married Catherine Bolt on 7th September 1774.\u00a0 His grave is beside the porch of St Mary\u2019s, covered with a large slate slab, now broken: – Thomas Jago, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1196,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10552","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10555,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10552\/revisions\/10555"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/launcestonthen.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}