Wesley Chapel

WESLEY CHAPEL, ST AGNES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141533
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:
Wesley Chapel
Statutory Address:
WESLEY CHAPEL, ST AGNES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1141533
Date first listed:
27-Nov-1985
Date of most recent amendment:
31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Wesley Chapel
Statutory Address 1:
WESLEY CHAPEL, ST AGNES

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WESLEY CHAPEL, ST AGNES

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Agnes
National Grid Reference:
SW 73668 46188

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/03/2017

SW 74 NW
7/127

ST AGNES
BLACKWATER
Wesley Chapel

(Formerly listed as Former Wesleyan Chapel)


27.11.85

GV
II
Wesleyan chapel and adjoining schoolroom. Date plaque 1822, remodelled slightly circa late C19. Painted rubble walls with brick arches over the openings. Scantle slate hipped roof. Cast-iron ogee-section gutters.

Plan: Rectangular aisle-less plan with gallery on three sides. Rostrum at north-west (ritual east) end, schoolroom beyond.

Exterior: Two storeys elevations. Original openings. Symmetrical two window south-east front has wide central doorway spanned by a segmental arch, otherwise round-headed openings with circa late C19 horned sashes with glazing bars.

Interior: Early C19 gallery (not inspected) said to be from a chapel in Truro (Christopher Stell); bow fronted rostrum.

Source: Stell, C. RCHM Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels.


Listing NGR: SW7366846188

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Legacy System number:
63759
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986)

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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.

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