FLEXBURY PARK METHODIST CHURCH

FLEXBURY PARK METHODIST CHURCH, FLEXBURY PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229794
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: FLEXBURY PARK METHODIST CHURCH
Statutory Address:: FLEXBURY PARK METHODIST CHURCH, FLEXBURY PARK

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Date:: 2007-06-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1229794
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: FLEXBURY PARK METHODIST CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: FLEXBURY PARK METHODIST CHURCH, FLEXBURY PARK

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:: FLEXBURY PARK METHODIST CHURCH, FLEXBURY PARK

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bude-Stratton
National Grid Reference:: SS 21114 07003

Details

SS 20 NW BUDE-STRATTON FLEXBURY PARK, FLEXBURY

5/181 Flexbury Park Methodist Church -

- II

Methodist church with meeting and schoolrooms. 1905. Built and designed by John Pethick, a local builder. Roughly-squared stone with contrasting freestone dressings and slate roof. Ambitious eccentric free Gothic-style. Rectangular church has gable ends and grandiose west front with narthex and west end angle corner towers, north tower designed for stair to gallery, south tower with clock, belfry and spire. 2-bay recess at east end of church, east end transepts gabled to north and south contain meeting and schoolrooms. West front has narthex under leanto roof, central bay buttressed with coped gable rising above roof. 5 lancet windows in narthex have continuous hoodmould. 3 rectangular windows above narthex have segmental heads and continuous hoodmould. 3 large lancets above have continuous hoodmould. Curious angle towers have set-back buttresses and arched stone doorways. South tower with tall shingled spire is of 3 stages with moulded strings and pyramidal corner pinnacles between gables on all sides. Second stage has single lancets to sides and clock in circular moulded frame. Belfry openings are paired lancets. North tower is a truncated version of the south tower, gabled to north-west and south-east only. Pyramidal pinnacle to north-west gable. 6-bay north and south sides of church buttressed with rectangular windows under segmental heads, and large lancet windows above. Triple lancets to gable ends of east projections. Pyramical pinnacles to gable ends. Ventilator pots on gabled projections to roof of church. Interior. Good arch braced roof. Plans for west gallery not executed. Contemporary pitch pine seating constructed from timber washed ashore from a wreck. Contemporary pulpit designed by John Pethick. Although not strictly architecturally literate this curious design is extremely ambitious.

Listing NGR: SS2111407003

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Legacy System number:: 64761
Legacy System:: LBS

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