Fine public buildings characterise the townscape,
such as the Market House and Town Hall (1867), the Literary
Institute (1842) and the J Passmore Edwards Library (1895). There
is also a Masonic Hall (1899) in Cross Street. The Wesleyan
Centenary Chapel (1839), in Centenary Street, was built to
commemorate the centenary of Charles Wesley’s conversion in 1738.
Trevithick statue (Listed Grade II). The bronze
statue stands in front of the Passmore Edwards Library, Camborne,
and shows Richard Trevithick holding a model of his road
locomotive which made its first run up Camborne Hill’ on Christmas
Eve, 1801. This was the first full-sized locomotive in the world.
