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Carbis Bay Hotel is a hotel in Carbis Bay near St Ives, Cornwall. It is the most prominent building in Carbis Bay, overlooking the beach.
In January 2021 it was announced that Carbis Bay would be the venue for that year's G7 Summit in June. In March 2021, the local planning authority launched an investigation to determine if the Carbis Bay Hotel, which was developing facilities for the summit, had contravened planning permissions. The hotel denied it had breached any regulations.
Official site
St Ives, Cornwall Hotels in Cornwall Hotels established in 1894 Hotel buildings completed in 1894 Silvanus Trevail buildings 1894 establishments in England
History
It was built in 1894 bySilvanus Trevail
Silvanus Trevail (11 November 1851 – 7 November 1903) was a British architect, and the most prominent Cornish architect of the 19th century.
Early life
Trevail was born at Carne Farm, Trethurgy in the parish of Luxulyan, Cornwall on 11 Nove ...
, Cornwall's most notable architect of the 19th century. As of 2003, the hotel was owned by Stephen Baker and his family, although it was previously owned by the Monk family.
Virginia Woolf stayed at the hotel in the spring of 1914 for three weeks while recovering from a bout of mental illness. She later based her 1927 novel '' To the Lighthouse'' on Godrevy Lighthouse
Godrevy Lighthouse was built in 1858–1859 on Godrevy Island in St Ives Bay, Cornwall. Standing approximately off Godrevy Head, it marks the Stones reef, which has been a hazard to shipping for centuries.
History
The Stones claimed man ...
on the other side of St Ives Bay
St Ives Bay ( kw, Roda Ia, meaning "Ia's anchorage") is a bay on the Atlantic coast of north-west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the form of a shallow crescent, some 4 miles or 6 km across, between St Ives in the west and Go ...
. Film director David Lean
Sir David Lean (25 March 190816 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Widely considered one of the most important figures in British cinema, Lean directed the large-scale epics ''The Bridge on the River ...
also once stayed in the hotel.
Author Rosamunde Pilcher
Rosamunde Pilcher, OBE (''née'' Scott; 22 September 1924 – 6 February 2019) was a British writer of romance novels, mainstream fiction, and short stories, from 1949 until her retirement in 2000. Her novels sold over 60 million copies worldw ...
featured the hotel (renamed as The Sands Hotel) in her novels ''The Shell Seekers
''The Shell Seekers'' is a 1987 novel by Rosamunde Pilcher. It became one of her most famous best-sellers. It was nominated by the British public in 2003 as one of the top 100 novels in the BBC's Big Read. In Germany the novel is called ''Die M ...
'' (1988) and ''Winter Solstice'' (2000).
Architecture and facilities
The hotel is a traditional cream-painted building, three storeys high with two largebay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...
s at either side. It has six chimney stacks, two on top of either bay and two in the middle. It has several extensions and a large conservatory at the front, overlooking the beach, which was refurbished in 2015.
G7 controversy
In January 2021 it was announced that Carbis Bay would be the venue for that year's G7 Summit in June. In March 2021, the local planning authority launched an investigation to determine if the Carbis Bay Hotel, which was developing facilities for the summit, had contravened planning permissions. The hotel denied it had breached any regulations.
References
External links
{{Portal, CornwallOfficial site
St Ives, Cornwall Hotels in Cornwall Hotels established in 1894 Hotel buildings completed in 1894 Silvanus Trevail buildings 1894 establishments in England