Trewalder Methodist Chapel and School Room
TREWALDER METHODIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL ROOM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146507
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Trewalder Methodist Chapel and School Room
- Statutory Address:
- TREWALDER METHODIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL ROOM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146507
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Trewalder Methodist Chapel and School Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- TREWALDER METHODIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL ROOM
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:
- TREWALDER METHODIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL ROOM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camelford
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0738382139
Details
CAMELFORD TREWALDER
SX 08 SE
4/88 Trewalder Methodist Chapel and
- School Room
II
Methodist Chapel, school room and carriage house. 1803, enlarged in 1862 and partly
remodelled. Slate stone rubble. Slate roof with hipped end to front, 2-span hipped
roof rear of chapel on left and gable end to school room on right. Lower slate roof
with gable end to carriage house on right.
Plan: the remains of the earlier chapel building.are extant in the south east corner
of the present chapel. The chapel was probably of rectangular plan, extended to the
right (south) in circa mid to late C19. Contemporary with this extension a school
room heated by an end stack was added on the right (south) forming an overall 'L'
shaped plan. A carriage house and stable was added on the right of the school room,
now used as a store and lavatory.
Single storey with ground sloping down to right. The chapel has a 2-span roof where
extended to the right (south). Plank double doors to entrance. The school room on
right has plank double doors flanked by an early C19 hornless 24 pane sash and a
later C19 horned 24 pane sash. The left hand side wall of the chapel has 2 C19 16-
pane sashes. Lower range on right comprising carriage house has yellow brick
dressings; wide segmental arch with plank double doors to left and plank door to
right. Round headed window in gable end with radiating glazing bars.
Interior : The chapel has simple pitch pine furnishings renewed in the later C19,
late C19 rostrum and late C20 altar rails. Central valley supported on cast iron
columns. School Room has C19 fireplace on right hand gable end with mid C19 register
plate.
John Wesley preached at Trewalder in 1750, 1751, 1753, 1760 and subsequently
biannually. The desk at which he is reputed to have preached is kept in the school
room at Trewalder. The society was established in 1753.
Shaw, Thomas Methodism in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit 1743-1963 1963
Stell, C. RCHM unpublished inventory of non-conformist chapels
Listing NGR: SX0738382139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68532
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991)
Shaw, T, Methodism in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit 1743-1963, (1963)
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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