Townshend Methodist Church and Associated Walls, Gate Piers and Gates
TOWNSHEND METHODIST CHURCH AND ASSOCIATED WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142190
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Townshend Methodist Church and Associated Walls, Gate Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNSHEND METHODIST CHURCH AND ASSOCIATED WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142190
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Townshend Methodist Church and Associated Walls, Gate Piers and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWNSHEND METHODIST CHURCH AND ASSOCIATED WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES
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:
- TOWNSHEND METHODIST CHURCH AND ASSOCIATED WALLS, GATE PIERS AND GATES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crowan
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 59196 32931
Details
SW 53 SE CROWAN TOWNSHEND
3/176 Townshend Methodist Church and
- associated walls, gate piers and
gates
GV II
Methodist chapel and associated walls, gate piers and gates. 1871. Painted rubble
walls with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills and lintels. Some slate sills
and brick arches. Dry Delabole slate roof with gable ends, the front gable in the
form of a pediment.
Plan : square aisle-less plan with gallery to 3 sides, extended at the rear (east)
circa late C19, to accommodate organ and vestry.
2 storey elevations. West entrance front has central round-headed doorway, 2 first
floor (gallery) round-headed windows and the gable in the form of a pediment with
brick dentils to the cornice. In the middle of the pediment is a round-headed date
plaque with dentils under the hoodmould. Pair of doors and the side elevations each
have 2 windows to each floor, the ground floor windows are flat-headed and the first
floor windows are round-headed. All original horned sashes with glazing bars, the
first floor windows have fanlight heads. War memorial in front, right.
Interior : contemporary round-ended gallery and rostrum with shaped brackets under,
all carried on Doric columns. Original box pews. In front of the chapel are low
coped walls with splat balustrades. Entrances to middle and left, both with granite
monolithic square-on-plan piers. Wrought-iron gates : the middle gate has shaped top
rail and scrolled and acanthus detail; the gate left, is braced and has spiked bars
and adjoining the rear left of the chapel is a similar gate with granite piers.
Sources : Christopher Stell,RCHM, Inventory of non-conformist chapels to be.
published by HMSO.
Listing NGR: SW5919632931
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/69066
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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