Camborne Centenary Methodist Church With Forecourt Walls and Railings
CAMBORNE CENTENARY METHODIST CHURCH WITH FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, WESLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160207
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Camborne Centenary Methodist Church With Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- CAMBORNE CENTENARY METHODIST CHURCH WITH FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, WESLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160207
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Camborne Centenary Methodist Church With Forecourt Walls and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAMBORNE CENTENARY METHODIST CHURCH WITH FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 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:
- CAMBORNE CENTENARY METHODIST CHURCH WITH FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, WESLEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 65186 40163
Details
CAMBORNE WESLEY STREET SW 64 SE (south side) 5/108 Camborne Centenary Methodist Church with forecourt walls and railings II Methodist church, formerly known as Camborne Centenary Methodist Chapel. Dated 1839 in pediment; altered, probably in late C19. Rendered, the front and right-hand side scored, probably on rubble; slate roof. Rectangular plan, gable to road, with porches flanking the facade. Two storeys and 5 bays; the original facade, which was a simple composition with 6 Doric giant pilasters, triglyph entablature, simple pediment containing the name and the date, square-headed windows at ground floor and round-headed windows above, and flanking single-storey porches with pedimented doors, was altered to give a central emphasis: the 3-bay centre breaks forward slightly, has a tetrastyle Roman Doric porch at ground floor protecting an inserted central doorway, raised lettering "CENTENARY WESLEYAN CHURCH" on the frieze, and a secondary segmental pediment in the original one, containing the date "1839" in a roundel flanked by foliated scrolls; the pilasters are now Corinthian, the ground floor has channelled rustication (with joggled voussoirs to the doorway and windows), the 1st floor windows have moulded architraves with keystones, and the side porches now have segmental pediments; all the windows now have round-headed lights and circular tracery. The 4-bay side walls have square- headed windows at ground floor (only 3 on the right) and round-headed above. (Attached Sunday School at rear not of special interest.) The forecourt walls and railings appear to be original: the sidewalls are rendered and have rounded coping, that on the left ramped, and the front is enclosed by cast-iron railings and gates with fleur-de-lys heads and dog- bars, mounted on a low granite ashlar plinth, with square piers which have swept pyramidal caps. Interior: horse-shoe gallery carried on a beam supported by cast-iron Tuscan columns with coupled brackets to the projected front, which is panelled and has a clock in the centre of the end (facing the pulpit); basket-arched apse filled at gallery level by large organ; former "City Road" arrangement of communion rail behind pulpit reversed by installation of rostrum with front altar surrounded by communion rail. References: J.C.C.Probert The Architecture of Cornish Methodism (1966), esp.p.8 and illustration facing p.13; Thomas Shaw A History of Cornish Methodism (1967).
Listing NGR: SW6518640163
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66656
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Probert, J C C, The Architecture of Cornish Methodism, (1966), 8 13
Shaw, T, A History of Cornish Methodism, (1967)
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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