Old Bible Christian Chapel Including Adjoining Former Trap House and Courtyard Walls

OLD BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHAPEL INCLUDING ADJOINING FORMER TRAP HOUSE AND COURTYARD WALLS

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1142024
Date first listed:
17-Jun-1988
Statutory Address:
OLD BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHAPEL INCLUDING ADJOINING FORMER TRAP HOUSE AND COURTYARD WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1142024
Date first listed:
17-Jun-1988
Statutory Address 1:
OLD BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHAPEL INCLUDING ADJOINING FORMER TRAP HOUSE AND COURTYARD WALLS

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD BIBLE CHRISTIAN CHAPEL INCLUDING ADJOINING FORMER TRAP HOUSE AND COURTYARD WALLS

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wendron
National Grid Reference:
SW 71490 34236

Details

SW 73 SW WENDRON CARNKIE

5/380 Old Bible Christian Chapel, - including adjoining former trap- house, courtyard walls

GV II

Bible Christian Chapel, including adjoining former trap-house, earth-closets, courtyard walls, gate-piers and gate, now a Sunday schoolroom. Datestone 1857. Dressed roughly coursed granite rubble with granite dressings, otherwise rubble or painted rubble. Chapel has asbestos slate roof with pedimented gable at the front and chimney over the rear gable. Trap-house and one earth-closet have scantle slate roofs; there is a brick chimney over the front end of the trap-house and cast-iron ogee-section gutters. Plan: Small rectangular-on-plan aisle-less chapel with rectangular-on-plan trap- house adjoining its front left-hand corner and earth closets by the front left-hand corner of the trap-house. 2-window chapel has original doors and windows: Pair of 2 panel doors in round-head opening with plain fanlight; vermiculated rusticated voussoirs to door arch; 12-pane sashes at first floor (formerly gallery) level and pediment with moulded cornices, and with name and date plaque; over. Side walls have square-headed window openings with C20 windows except for round- headed window with original hornless sash with traceried head towards rear of left- hand side. Trap-house has right-hand wall at front with C19 6-pane horned sash on the left and partly blocked original wide doorway on the right. Interior: Not inspected but said to have no original fittings. Rubble courtyard wall adjoining right-hand front corner of chapel has dressed granite copings; gateway with pyramidally-headed dressed granite monolithic piers and original wrought-iron gate with fleurs-de-lys and scrolled detail.

Listing NGR: SW7149034236

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