An enormous boulder, known as the Jubilee Rock. This stone, a bulbous dome of granite, had almost certainly been a place of play and adventure for the young John Rogers growing up on the farm at Pendrift less than half a mile away. But by 1810 John was a grown man of twenty-four years, a lieutenant in the British Army who had returned to Cornwall after years of fighting in foreign fields. He was full of patriotic fervour and with plenty of time on his hands he began to see the rock in a new light.
Jubilee Rock, as it was later christened, became a canvas for this young man and he set to work with a hammer and chisel. It isn’t clear when Rogers started but his efforts were unveiled on 25th October 1810 in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the accession of King George III. To the delight of the gathered crowd, some of whom were his army friends, John Rogers revealed he had covered the rock in carvings.
Carved on the north side of the boulder are the Falmouth and Morshead coat of arms, with the Molesworth arms on the south side. Other emblems also include the figure of Britannia as depicted on a penny coin, a beehive, a ship, a plough and then of course the Cornish Arms complete with the Prince’s Plume of feathers. There are also Freemasonry symbols, leading to speculation that Rogers was a freemason himself, and later additions include commemorations of Queen Victoria’s reign and that of Queen Elizabeth II added in 2012.
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