Wesleyan Chapel
Wesleyan Chapel
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162569
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- Wesleyan Chapel
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1162569
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Wesleyan Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Wesleyan Chapel
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:
- Wesleyan Chapel
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wendron
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 69104 33430
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 April 2022 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
SW 63 SE
4/396
WENDRON
PORKELLIS
Wesleyan Chapel
GV
II*
Methodist chapel. Dated plaque 1866. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Grouted scantle slate roof with pedimented gable at the south-east entrance front. Cast-iron ogee gutters.
Plan: Rectangular aisle-less plan with semi-circular organ loft over vestry projection at the rear (ritual east) end. Gallery on three sides.
Exterior: two storey elevations. Symmetrical three window entrance front with triangular stuccoed pediment and round-headed openings. Wide central doorway has original pair of six-panel doors and traceried fanlight. Window over doorway has later C19 coloured memorial glass. Tall flanking stair windows have traceried heads. Three window side walls have square-headed openings to ground floor with original 16-pane hornless sashes and round-headed openings above with original sashes with traceried heads.
Interior: Complete and unaltered interior with cantilevered panelled gallery on paired brackets over Tuscan columns and rostrum with canted front.
Listing NGR: SW6910433430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66386
- 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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