Stair Hole

Oil painting (framed). Starehole Cove (as it is usually spelt) is a small rock and sand beach in Starehole Bay close to the mouth of the Salcombe and Kingsbridge Estuary in south Devon. It is a well-known beauty spot with a rugged and visually striking limestone geology that attracts artistic and photographic interpretation, as here. It is also well known to leisure divers since the remains of the four-masted barque 'Herzogin Cecilie' - one of the celebrated 'grain-race' ships of the 1920s and 1930s have lain just off the cove since she was abandoned there after being holed on the nearby Hamstone in 1936. She capsized and broke up there three years later. The artist Reginald Lloyd, RI, was born in Hereford in 1926 and lived in Devon. There is work by him in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Britain and other public and private collections.

Object Details

ID: BHC2312
Collection: Fine art
Type: Painting
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Lloyd, Reginald James
Date made: 1974
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Frame: 486 mm x 653 mm x 61 mm;Painting: 370 x 536 mm