Church of St Mary Clement
CHURCH OF ST MARY CLEMENT, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOM AT REAR, UNION PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201542
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Clement
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY CLEMENT, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOM AT REAR, UNION PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201542
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary Clement
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY CLEMENT, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOM AT REAR, UNION PLACE
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:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY CLEMENT, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOM AT REAR, UNION PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Truro
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 82593 45000
Details
TRURO
880-1/4/304 UNION PLACE
08-JAN-71 TRURO
(North side)
CHURCH OF ST MARY CLEMENT
including Schoolroom at rear
(Formerly listed as:
UNION PLACE
TRURO
ST MARY'S METHODIST CHAPEL)
II
A large Wesleyan chapel and adjoining schoolroom. Datestones on the building indicate that the chapel was built in 1830 and the schoolroom in 1868. The building was modernised by Silvanus Trevail in 1885 when most of the interior fittings and windows were added. The chapel is in the Classical style, 2 storeyed, with granite to the western front and rubble with granite dressings elsewhere and a Delabole slate roof. Rectangular aisleless plan with galleries on all sides. Symmetrical 1:1:1-bay west entrance front has moulded triangular pediment with central oculus over quoin pilasters and pairs of pilasters between the bays; 3 round-arched first-floor windows with glazing bars and spoked fanlight heads; central doorway is flanked by free-standing Doric columns with entablature over; tapered flanking doorways have eared architraves; C20 doors. Side walls have later C19 windows with coloured memorial glass.
INTERIOR: panelled plaster ceiling with moulded ribs.
Fittings: all date to the 1884/5 renovation of the chapel and include pitch pine benches with galleries on all sides; columns to galleries; a large mahogany rostrum and altar rail.
Source:- West Briton 19th March 1885
Listing NGR: SW8259544999
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377614
- 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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