The Old Chapel Including Front Courtyard Wall, Gate Piers and Gate
THE OLD CHAPEL INCLUDING FRONT COURTYARD WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142147
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1957
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Chapel Including Front Courtyard Wall, Gate Piers and Gate
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD CHAPEL INCLUDING FRONT COURTYARD WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATE
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142147
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Chapel Including Front Courtyard Wall, Gate Piers and Gate
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD CHAPEL INCLUDING FRONT COURTYARD WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATE
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:
- THE OLD CHAPEL INCLUDING FRONT COURTYARD WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sithney
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 63602 28882
Details
SW 62 NW SITHNEY CHURCHTOWN, Sithney
7/303 The Old Chapel (formerly listed as - Methodist Chapel) including front 10.7.57 courtyard wall, gate piers and gate GV II
Methodist chapel now a house including front courtyard walls, gate piers and gate. 1859. Roughly coursed killas rubble front with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills and roof with cast iron ogee gutters and downpipes. Plan : rectangular aisless plan with galleries. 2 storey elevations. The symmetrical hipped front has central ground floor doorway with double doors and 2 first floor windows to light the gallery. Each side wall has 3 ground floor and 3 first floor windows, all original 16-pane hornless sashes in thein original openings. Interior not inspected but said to have original gallery. In front of the chapel is a walled courtyard with slurried rubble-coped rubble walls on 3 sides; one of the walls is parallel to the front of the chapel screening the doorway; another wall returning towards the front on the left and linked to the entrance wall beside the road. In the middle of the entrance wall is a gateway with round-headed square-on-plan granite monolithic gate piers and original wrought iron gate. The gate has roundels to the lock rail, a top rail ramped up to a point and spear head finials. A delightfully simple Methodist chapel and externally unaltered. Source: Christopher Stell, RCHM, from an inventory of non-conformist chapels, to be published by HMSO.
Listing NGR: SW6360228882
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65978
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991)
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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