Balwest Methodist Church, Adjoining Courtyard Walls and Gate Piers
BALWEST METHODIST CHURCH, ADJOINING COURTYARD WALLS AND GATE PIERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142195
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Balwest Methodist Church, Adjoining Courtyard Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- BALWEST METHODIST CHURCH, ADJOINING COURTYARD WALLS AND GATE PIERS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142195
- Date first listed:
- 26-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Balwest Methodist Church, Adjoining Courtyard Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- BALWEST METHODIST CHURCH, ADJOINING COURTYARD WALLS AND GATE PIERS
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:
- BALWEST METHODIST CHURCH, ADJOINING COURTYARD WALLS AND GATE PIERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Germoe
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 59603 29964
Details
SW 52 NE GERMOE BALWEST
6/207 Balwest Methodist Church, adjoining courtyard walls and gate piers II
Methodist chapel. 1829. Slurried granite rubble with dressed granite quoins, jambstones, sills, voussoirs, lintels, pediment string and gable copings. Low- pitched grouted scantle slate roof with coped gable ends, the entrance front gable in the form of a simple triangular pediment. Cast iron ogee gutters. Plan: rectangular aisless plan with semi-circular-on-plan gallery on 3 sides, the ritual east end, west, and the entrance front facing approximately east. Later single storey room at the west end. Symmetrical 2 window east entrance front: round-headed central ground floor doorway, 2 original round-headed hornless sashes to light gallery above and all surmounted by a simple triangular pediment with central blind oculus (presumably for former date plaque). The doorway has double doors and fanlight, the windows have integral. fanlights. The round-headed arches have projecting granite keystones. The sides are 2-storey 2-window elevations with circa late C19 or C20 4-pane horned sashes in the original openings. Interior : is largely complete. The gallery has been reduced so that it now reaches only half way long each side but original panelling has been used to return the now canted ends. The gallery is now carried on 5 of the original Doric columns. There is a complex moulded cornice under the gallery front and the front has bead-mouldings with scalloped corners to the rectangular panels. At the east end of the chapel, and in the gallery over, the original box pews survive. The fine rostrum has a canted pulpit and a short flight of stairs at either side. There are 2 memorial windows with coloured glass in the west wall. This building is a good example of an early C19 Methodist chapel, restrained classical style with detail more domestic than ecclesiastical. Sources : 150th Church Anniversary leaflet. Nonconformist Chapels (manuscript) by Christopher Stell, R.C.H.M., to be published by HMSO.
Listing NGR: SW5960329964
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 65890
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991)
Other
Balwest Methodist Church 150th Anniversary Leaflet,
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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