The Royal Cornwall Museum is the learned and vibrant showplace of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, founded in 1818, an anthology of the geology, archeology and social history of the Duchy of Cornwall, as well as a collection of objets d'art.

Repeated requests for Cornwall to become an independent see were finally granted and the construction of a stone cathedral began in 1880. Completed by 1910, the cathedral is a mixture of Normandy Gothic with slender arches. Outside, the three steep..