Church of St John (Methodist)
CHURCH OF ST JOHN (METHODIST), AND ATTACHED SCHOOLROOMS, BODMIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211944
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John (Methodist)
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN (METHODIST), AND ATTACHED SCHOOLROOMS, BODMIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1211944
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John (Methodist)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN (METHODIST), AND ATTACHED SCHOOLROOMS, BODMIN ROAD
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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 JOHN (METHODIST), AND ATTACHED SCHOOLROOMS, BODMIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Austell
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 01164 52595
Details
SX0152
1/459
28.11.50
ST AUSTELL
1584A BODMIN ROAD
CHURCH OF ST JOHN
Methodist Church
II*
Large Wesleyan chapel and attached schoolrooms. 1828, restored and refitted 1892 by Sylvanus Trevail, incorporating late C18 central window and porch from Saunders Hill Mansion, Padstow; Sunday school 1904, probably also by Trevail. MATERIALS: granite ashlar plinth and central pediment over panel, front is otherwise Pentewan stone ashlar, other elevations local rubble with Pentewan stone voussoirs; Sunday school with dressed stone brought to course; dry Delabole slate hipped roofs; cast-iron ogee gutters and cast-iron downpipes to side elevations.
PLAN: large aisle-less plan with apse at E end (originally City Road style), galleries to each side; Sunday school and other rooms adjoining to rear left. EXTERIOR: 2-storey elevations with round arches over flat arches; symmetrical 1:3:1-bay front with side bays broken forward and clasping the corners, original plain ashlar course to parapets on either side of 1892 pediment with buttressed panelled and pedimented piers flanking a wide panel under the main pediment; original moulded parapet cornice. 1892 windows with round-arched lights, the 1st-floor windows with round tracery, all with coloured leaded glass. Central pedimented Ionic distyle porch and pilastered window surround above have festoons to their entablature. Porch has datestone inserted to pediment inscribed: BUILT 1828, RESTORED 1892; pair of panelled doors. 5-bay side elevations have windows of similar design to the front windows. Sunday school has symmetrical 4-window front with pedimented parapet similar to that of the chapel front and round-arched windows similar to those of the chapel but with plain glazing.
INTERIOR: very fine interior with 1892 panelled and carved plaster ceiling with moulded cornices and ribs and acanthus rose within central panel, with acanthus, anthemion and scroll detail surrounding the rose and to adjoining panels; some original plaster detail at the E end.
FITTINGS: galleries remodelled or rebuilt by Trevail with detail similar to that of Mount Charles Chapel (1873), Leek Seed Chapel, refitted 1903 (qv) and Zion Chapel, 1880 (qv) the gallery front of different coloured woods with panels flanked by Ionic pilasters; pitch-pine pews and fine rostrum with canted front and centre break and detail similar to gallery front but with squat turned balustrades surmounting the panels; organ in apse. COLOURED GLASS: good coloured glass at the entrance end with central window depicting Wesley to the central roundel.
St Johns is a good example of a large early C19 galleried chapel and the re-fitting is of an exceptionally high standard.
Listing NGR: SX0116452595
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396369
- 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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