Friends Meeting House
Friends Meeting House, Beacon Road, Marazion, TR17 0HF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1143785
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- Friends Meeting House, Beacon Road, Marazion, TR17 0HF
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1143785
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Friends Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Friends Meeting House, Beacon Road, Marazion, TR17 0HF
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:
- Friends Meeting House, Beacon Road, Marazion, TR17 0HF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marazion
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 51849 30701
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 June 2022 to update the address and to reformat the text to current standards
SW 5130
4/32
MARAZION
BEACON ROAD
Friends Meeting House
(Formerly listed as Friends Meeting House, ROSEHILL, MARAZION)
GV
II*
Quaker meeting house. Circa 1688 remodelled 1742 and circa 1880. Granite rubble walls with some cob at the rear. Wooden lintels. Scantle slate roof, gabled to the north west, hipped to the south east.
PLAN: rectangular aisle-less plan with rostrum/pulpit at the east end and doorway originally to middle of south wall (now window), but in the C19 a doorway was cut in the middle of the west gable end. Probably originally there was a gallery at the west end. C20 extension front.
EXTERIOR: single storey. Symmetrical three-window south front with probably 1742 paired twelve-pane hornless sashes with wide internally ovolo moulded glazing bars and some crown glass; in the former central doorway is C19 copy with thin glazing bars. C19 shutters with chamfered stiles and rails. Left-hand gable end has central doorway with C19 four-panel door in bowtell-moulded (possibly C18) frame and hood over carried on shaped brackets; above the doorway a C19 twelve-pane two-light casement.
INTERIOR: original rostrum with simple balustrade with splat column balusters with ovolo moulded cornice to the handrail and to the square-on-plan newel posts with ball finials; original settle with shaped ends behind and flanked by probably later settles at lower level on either side. 1880 roof structure. Cobbled path at the west end.
The plan of this meeting house is like the one at Come-to-Good (q.v.), Kea, and there were probably many other similarities before the C19 alterations. The C18 sashes are particularly notable and rare features.
SOURCE: An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels, by Christopher Stell RCHM
Listing NGR: SW5184930701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 69941
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986)
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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