METHODIST CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY

METHODIST CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1208344
Date first listed:: 22-May-1990
List Entry Name:: METHODIST CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY
Statutory Address:: METHODIST CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1208344
Date first listed:: 22-May-1990
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:: METHODIST CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY
Statutory Address 1:: METHODIST CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY, FORE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: METHODIST CHURCH AND FORECOURT WALL, RAILINGS AND GATEWAY, FORE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Porthleven
National Grid Reference:: SW 62964 25923

Details

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SW6225 FORE STREET, Porthleven 631-1/6/255 (South East side) 22/05/90 Methodist Church and forecourt wall, railings and gateway (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET Methodist Church, including front area, wall, railings and gateway)

GV II*

Nonconformist chapel. 1883 datestone. Slatestone rubble with granite dressings including plinth, strings, kneelers and copings; asbestos slate roof with some courses of fishscale slate resembling features of original dry Delabole slate roof. Rectangular aisleless plan with gallery on 4 sides; pair of entrances and staircases at ritual west end; organ loft projection at ritual east end. Gothic Revival style. Tall single-storey elevations with side windows shared by galleries. NW entrance front is 3 bays with wider central bay flanked by weathered buttresses surmounted by open bellcotes with pinnacles; end buttresses to octagonal pseudo bellcotes with pinnacles and finials. Central bay has gable ventilator over large 5-light traceried window with pointed lights and central rose; coloured leaded glass; sill string. Ground floor has pair of gabled doorways flanking a central buttress; stepped trefoil-headed overlights and original panelled doors. Side walls are 4:1 bays with stair bays flanked by pinnacled buttresses; all bay with paired transomed lancets with round tracery; similar end buttresses. INTERIOR: large auditorium with oval between gallery with panelled front carried on slender iron columns; trefoil-on-section barrel ceiling with heavy moulded cornice and visible steel tie rods. Fittings: original pitch pine pews except for small number removed at the front; tiered pews to gallery; balustraded rostrum and communion rail in front; organ with round-arched panels in round-arched apse. Subsidiary features: forecourt has low slatestone walls with granite coping surmounted by ornate cast-iron railings between gabled granite piers including central gate piers with arched panels, overthrow and pair of cast-iron gates. HISTORY: this large Wesleyan chapel was built at a cost of »3,500, including the site and the chapel-keeper's house (qv). (Kelly's Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall: 1902-1902: 273).

Listing NGR: SW6296425923

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 385475
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Kellys Directory' in Cornwall, (1902), 273
'Kellys Directory' in Devonshire, (1902), 273

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.