NEWLYN PREACHING PIT AND STOREHOUSE

NEWLYN PREACHING PIT AND STOREHOUSE, CARGOLL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1141454
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: NEWLYN PREACHING PIT AND STOREHOUSE
Statutory Address:: NEWLYN PREACHING PIT AND STOREHOUSE, CARGOLL ROAD

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Date:: 2003-10-19
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1141454
Date first listed:: 16-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: NEWLYN PREACHING PIT AND STOREHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NEWLYN PREACHING PIT AND STOREHOUSE, CARGOLL ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NEWLYN PREACHING PIT AND STOREHOUSE, CARGOLL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Newlyn East
National Grid Reference:: SW 82421 56338

Details

ST NEWLYN EAST CARGOLL ROAD SW 85 NW (South side) 1/33 Newlyn Preaching Pit and storehouse.

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Weslyan preaching pit. Late C18 or early C19. Earth and moorstone. An open-air theatre of 7 grades of seats formed in an excavation around a circular orchestra, capable of holding 2000 persons. On east side a pulpit platform of semicircular form springs from the 3rd grade. Upper grades are supported on a Cornish hedge compensating for the fall in ground. Entrance directly off road, through late C19 iron gates with overthrow between incurved stone flanking walls. Within, on left, a storeroom with furnace, rubble stone with slurried slate roof. Entrance in west gable end, and window on south. Interior has remains of hearth and boiler with stack on east gable. Preaching pits found favour with John Wesley for their direct simplicity and egalitarianism after his successful mission to Gwennap mine in 1762. Only three such pits now survive.

Listing NGR: SW8242156338

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Legacy System number:: 63972
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.