Landmarks
Notable Cornish architect Silvanus Trevail designed a number of St Austell's buildings and houses, including the Thin End and the Moorland Road terrace. Of other notable architects from St Austell include John Goode, who contributed considerably during the 1970s to residential developments in the area.
Pevsner remarks in his guide to Cornwall that the following buildings are notable:
- The Parish Church
- The Old Town Hall, in Italian Renaissance style, 1844
- Friends Meeting House, 1829, a plain granite structure
- Masonic Hall, South Street, 1900 home to nine Masonic bodies
- White Hart Hotel: once contained panoramic wallpaper of the Bay of Naples by Dufour (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum)
- Holy Well at Menacuddle.
- Three buildings of the 1960s: Penrice School, 1960; Public Library, 1961; former Magistrates' Court, 1966.
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