Methodist Chapel
METHODIST CHAPEL, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140307
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHAPEL, WEST STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140307
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHAPEL, WEST STREET
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:
- METHODIST CHAPEL, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lanteglos
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 12447 50965
Details
SX 15 SW LANTEGLOS-BY-FOWEY WEST STREET, POLRUAN
8/91 Methodist Chapel -
- II
Wesleyan Chapel, now Methodist Chapel, 1880 foundation stone. Designed by Mr Hicks of Redruth. Snecked grey limestone blocks with ashlar quoins and freestone dressings. Symmetrical gabled south front with slate roof. Free Gothic style. Gabled south front (ritual west) with central entrance in coped gabled stone porch with corner buttresses. Pitch pine diagonal boarded 3 panel double doors flanked by pilasters supporting 2 centred arch with foiled tracery in tympanum. Flanked by 2 engaged pinnacled octagonal turrets rising from tall square bases and rising above gable apex with engaged shafts near top with blind arcading above surmounted by pinnacles which were once possibly decorated with finials. Flanked on ground floor by 2 lancet windows with foiled tracery within. Large central rose window above porch. Angle buttresses on corners. Cast iron railings Complete interior with raked seating with pitch pine benches. Pitch pine rostrum and rails. Dado panelling. Plastered ceiling is hammer beam in profile.
Listing NGR: SX1244750965
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60593
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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