Methodist Chapel
METHODIST CHAPEL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159592
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- METHODIST CHAPEL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159592
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Methodist Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- METHODIST CHAPEL
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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:
- METHODIST CHAPEL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gwinear-Gwithian
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 58631 41166
Details
SW 54 SE GWINEAR-GWITHIAN GWITHIAN
CHURCHTOWN
1534/1/39
Methodist Chapel
14.01.1988
GV
II*
Nonconformist (Wesleyan chapel). Circa 1810.
MATERIALS: painted rubble and cob walls, the lifts of the cob clearly visible; wheat-reed thatched hipped roof.
PLAN: small rectangular aisle-less plan with gallery at the rear (west) end and doorway to the north wall.
EXTERIOR: single-storey elevations. North entrance front has late C19 horned sash with coloured margin panes set high up on the left and doorway with [ate C19 door. Similar windows near centre of opposite wall and to centre of east end.
INTERIOR: not inspected but former list description notes: "simple interior with plain plastered walls and canopied ceiling. C19 panelled gallery front with coved cornice rostrum with choir stalls at either side and 2 flights of steps, otherwise much renewed in the C20".
FITTINGS: replaced in 1959. Now the only original thatched Methodist chapel left in Cornwall, very much in the mould of nonconformist vernacular buildings of the Old Dissent such as the Quaker Meeting House at Come-to-Good, Kea. In a national context, this survives as a very rare and outstanding example in the vernacular tradition.
Bibliography
2826 Gwithian (Charles Thomas), 1964.
Listing NGR: SW5863141166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70133
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thomas, C, Gwithian, (1964)
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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