Tags: Lighthouse, Tower.
Peninnis Lighthouse is situated on Peninnis Head St Mary’s Isles of Scilly. The light was built to replace the lighthouse in the centre of the island of St Agnes and helps vessels to enter Hugh Town harbour via St Mary’s Sound. It was first lit in 1911 is circular 45 feet (14 m) tall and consists of a black steel open lattice foundation white gallery and black–domed top. It was one of the first gas–powered light houses to use acetylene and converted to electricity in 1992.
