Penryn Methodist Church, Schoolroom and Attached Forecourt Walls
PENRYN METHODIST CHURCH, SCHOOLROOM AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, THE TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187668
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Penryn Methodist Church, Schoolroom and Attached Forecourt Walls
- Statutory Address:
- PENRYN METHODIST CHURCH, SCHOOLROOM AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, THE TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187668
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Penryn Methodist Church, Schoolroom and Attached Forecourt Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENRYN METHODIST CHURCH, SCHOOLROOM AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, THE TERRACE
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:
- PENRYN METHODIST CHURCH, SCHOOLROOM AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS, THE TERRACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Penryn
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 78418 34401
Details
PENRYN
SW7834SW THE TERRACE 580-1/5/186 Penryn Methodist Church, Schoolroom and attached forecourt walls
GV II
Nonconformist chapel. Datestone 1891 by J W Trounson, builder Carkeek; stonework John Freemand & Co. Dressed granite front with rockfaced ashlar plinth, some granite ashlar and dressings; rock-faced granite brought to course and some red granite, dressings including carved imposts, round arches and moulded strings, otherwise granite rubble with granite dressings and round brick arches except schoolroom with granite lintels; dry slate and scantle slate roofs; cast-iron ogee gutters; brick stack on left of schoolroom. Rectangular aisle-less plan with galleries plus vestry at rear and schoolroom at rear left. Italianate style. 2-storey elevations; 1:1:1-bay front end with central coped gable flanked by moulded parapets fronting lean-to roofs. Leaded glazed windows with coloured, probably memorial, glass; paired windows with polished nook shafts and mullions except for similarly detailed stepped 3-light central window over pair of wide gabled doorways with moulded round arches fronting loggia; jambs similar to window openings. Inner doorways with pairs of 6-panel doors and similar return doors to stairs, all with 2-pane fanlights. 5-bay side elevations with original horned sashes with margin panes and fanlight heads. Schoolroom has original doors and windows. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be complete: stained glass by Messrs Fouracre & Co of Stonehouse; plaster ceiling by Messrs Jackson & Son of London. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: granite rubble forecourt walls with chamfered granite copings surmounted by twist wrought-iron bars to otherwise plain railings. Central gateway with square-on-plan granite gate-piers with moulded caps. (Roddis R J: Penryn, The History of an Ancient Cornish Borough: Penryn: 1964-: 154, 155).
Listing NGR: SW7841834401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365865
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Roddis, R J, Penryn The History of an Ancient Cornish Borough Penryn, (1964), 154,155
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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