Camelford Methodist Church
CAMELFORD METHODIST CHURCH, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138307
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Camelford Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- CAMELFORD METHODIST CHURCH, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1138307
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Camelford Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAMELFORD METHODIST CHURCH, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CAMELFORD METHODIST CHURCH, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camelford
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 10611 83763
Details
CAMELFORD MARKET PLACE, Camelford SX 1083 -1183 8/75 Camelford Methodist Church - GV II
Methodist chapel. 1837 interior remodelled in 1980s. Stone rubble with granite dressings. Slate roof with hipped ends and gable end to front, to right of centre. Plan: deep rectangular plan. Original chapel possibly comprised main range near centre which is set slightly forward and has a gable end to the road. Probably extended to right with small room over alleyway and to left to accommodate Sunday School. Exterior : Front elevation with gable end of possible earlier range to right of centre; stone rubble ramp with iron railings up to entrance in gable end with C20 plank double doors in partly blocked 2-centred arched opening and wrought-iron grates to basement windows on right and left. 2 tall 2-light lancet windows above with intersecting glazing bars and niche in gable end. To left, blocked door and two 2- light rectangular openings with tall rectangular window and 2-light lancet window above. To right, segmental rusticated granite arch to alley with 2-light window above. Interior remodelled in 1980s. The chapel when opened in 1837 was described by the West Briton as 'a neat building and an ornament to the town'. Shaw, Thomas Methodism in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit 1743-1963, 1963. Stell, C RCHM unpublished inventory of non-conformist.
Listing NGR: SX1061183763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68517
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991)
Shaw, T, Methodism in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit 1743-1963, (1963)
The West Briton in The West Briton, (1837)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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