The Chapel Including Wall and Balustrades
THE CHAPEL INCLUDING WALL AND BALUSTRADES, CLIFF ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270089
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Chapel Including Wall and Balustrades
- Statutory Address:
- THE CHAPEL INCLUDING WALL AND BALUSTRADES, CLIFF ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270089
- Date first listed:
- 24-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Chapel Including Wall and Balustrades
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CHAPEL INCLUDING WALL AND BALUSTRADES, CLIFF ROAD
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:
- THE CHAPEL INCLUDING WALL AND BALUSTRADES, CLIFF ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Falmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SW8127131822
Details
FALMOUTH
SW83SW CLIFF ROAD
843-1/2/82 (South side)
The Chapel, including wall and
balustrades
GV II
Summer house in former private garden of Gyllyngdune estate,
possibly used as a chapel but never consecrated. c1840s for
the Revd William Coope, rector of Falmouth 1838-1870. Rubble
with red brick dressings; fish-scale scantle slate gabled roof
with exposed purlins, shaped and pierced quatrefoil and dagger
barge boards with turned finials and pendants.
Small cruciform, near rectangular plan with balustraded walk
around it and serving as a bridge over a waterfront walk (in
the style of a rustic cave) and linked to steps and walls
giving access to Steps (qv) and tunnel to beach.
Gothic Revival style. Central pointed-arched doorway with
hood-mould, pair of planked doors and iron gate with scrolled
crest to landward end. Flat-headed window to each side gable
and to seaward end, all with hood-moulds and boarded up at
time of survey; crosses above side windows.
INTERIOR: well-detailed waggon roof with cross vault and
moulded under-purlins and lower arched bracing.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: red brick balustrades between piers with
stepped pyramidal caps around the building, winder steps down
to path and wall with similar piers and balustrades continuing
along the seaward side towards, and recessed parallel to the
Steps (qv), giving access to the beach, and slightly beyond.
HISTORY: the Revd William Coope was the "unchallenged pioneer"
of Tractarianism within the Anglican Church in Cornwall.
Prominent position on sea front.
(Working Party of District Councillors: The Princess Pavilion
and Gyllyngdune Gardens (future plan): 1992-).
Listing NGR: SW8127131822
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460126
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Working Party of District Councillors, , The Princess Pavilion and Gyllyngdune Gardens (Future Plan), (1992)
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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