Redruth Methodist Church
REDRUTH METHODIST CHURCH, WESLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142541
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Redruth Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- REDRUTH METHODIST CHURCH, WESLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142541
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Redruth Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- REDRUTH METHODIST CHURCH, WESLEY STREET
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:
- REDRUTH METHODIST CHURCH, WESLEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Redruth
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 70125 42078
Details
REDRUTH WESLEY STREET
SW 74 SW
(south side)
11/316
Redruth Methodist Church
GV
II
Methodist church. Dated 1826 in gable. Granite ashlar facade; otherwise,
slobbered granite rubble; slate roof. Rectangular plan, 6 x 8 bays, gable to road.
Two storeys and 6 bays, symmetrical, in simple classical style; the pedimented
facade has a 1st floor band (carried round the whole), and a 4-bay ground floor
colonnade between projected porches to the 1st and 6th bays; the porches, which
are of channelled masonry, rectangular in plan and flat-roofed, each have a large
round-headed doorway with rusticated voussoirs and large keystone; the
colonnade, of slender Tuscan columns with a plain frieze, protects round-headed
doorways in the 2nd and 5th bays, and round-headed windows in the 3rd and 4th
bays; all these doorways have panelled double doors with quadrantal overlights;
between the windows is an added war memorial. The 1st floor has 6 round-
headed windows, and the pedimented gable contains panels with raised lettering:-
"WESLEY" "1826" "CHAPEL"
and added lettering below this:-
"REDRUTH METHODIST CHURCH" "
The return walls have 8 round-headed windows on each floor. Interior: a
continuous gallery carried on fluted iron columns with foliated capitals, the
gallery front having rounded open panels containing cast bronze open-work; flat
ceiling with pierced roundels; very ornate late C19 pulpit, and on the wall behind
this, 3 round-headed wooden Commandment Tables; large and ornamental organ
case mounted on gallery above pulpit.
Listing NGR: SW7012542078
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66881
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9330
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/142831
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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