Stithians Methodist Church (Formerly Penmennor Methodist Church)
Stithians Methodist Church (Formerly Penmennor Methodist Church)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161993
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stithians Methodist Church (Formerly Penmennor Methodist Church)
- Statutory Address:
- Stithians Methodist Church (Formerly Penmennor Methodist Church)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161993
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Jan-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Stithians Methodist Church (Formerly Penmennor Methodist Church)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Stithians Methodist Church (Formerly Penmennor Methodist Church)
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:
- Stithians Methodist Church (Formerly Penmennor Methodist Church)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stithians
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 72415 37057
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 October 2022 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SW 73 NW
1533/2/248
STITHIANS
HENDRA
Stithians Methodist Church
(Formerly Penmennor Methodist Church)
17.06.88
GV
II*
Methodist chapel. Datestone 1865. Faced granite entrance front with rock-faced granite ashlar to basement, plinth and rusticated granite dressings, otherwise granite rubble. Dry Delabole slate roof with pedimented gable to front.
Plan: Rectangular aisle-less plan with canted vestry and organ loft projecting from the middle of the rear. Entrance hall and pair of gallery stairs at the front, gallery on four sides. Schoolroom in basement. Circa 1900 small chapel built over former trap house and stable at right.
Exterior: two storey elevations over basement as plinth. Symmetrical three window north (ritual west) entrance front with triangular pediment with name and date plaques. Wide elliptically-arched rusticated central doorway with original pair of four-panel doors and elliptical fanlight. Wide flight of granite steps in front of doorway complete with original iron balustrades. Segmental arches over ground floor window, round arches to first floor (gallery) windows. Rusticated quoins, jambstones and voussoirs, mid floor string and moulded pediment. Original windows throughout: fixed nine-pane lights to ground floor of front; hornless sashes with fanlight heads to first floor of front and 12-pane horned sashes to sides and rear.
Interior: Complete interior with gallery on four sides. The central ground floor pews and the gallery pews are the original box pews. The cantelivered front of the gallery is carried on shaped brackets over Tuscan columns. Rostrum has bowed front. There are moulded ceiling cornices and an ornate domed central rose. The schoolroom also has an original rostrum and the rooms under the organ loft (a small meeting room and vestry are also unaltered.
Listing NGR: SW7241537057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66234
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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