Former Baptist Chapel, Now Part of County Museum
FORMER BAPTIST CHAPEL, NOW PART OF COUNTY MUSEUM, RIVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280417
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Former Baptist Chapel, Now Part of County Museum
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER BAPTIST CHAPEL, NOW PART OF COUNTY MUSEUM, RIVER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1280417
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jul-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Former Baptist Chapel, Now Part of County Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER BAPTIST CHAPEL, NOW PART OF COUNTY MUSEUM, RIVER STREET
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:
- FORMER BAPTIST CHAPEL, NOW PART OF COUNTY MUSEUM, RIVER STREET
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 82404 44884
Details
TRURO
SW8244NW RIVER STREET 880-1/6/264 (North side) 19/06/73 Former Baptist Chapel, now part of County Museum (Formerly Listed as: RIVER STREET (North side) Baptist Chapel)
GV II
Non-conformist chapel, now part of the County Museum. 1848. By Philip Sambell. Granite ashlar front, Delabole slate roof with pediments at the front. Rectangular aisleless plan, formerly with gallery on 3 sides now divided into 2 floors, former schoolroom at rear added in 1867. 2 storeys. Pedimented 1:1:1-bay street front. Plinth, string course and giant pilasters dividing the bays; round-arched openings, recessed to first floor, with moulded architraves to ground floor; tall central window over doorway rising into open pediment, original hornless sashes with glazing bars and spoked-fanlight heads, margin panes to central window. Ground floor has 3 doorways: taller central doorway and flanking doorways approached by granite steps, all with pairs of doors with glazed upper panels and spoked fanlights. Side walls have dressed granite buttresses dividing rubble bays with tall original sashes with glazing bars and spoked-fanlight heads. INTERIOR: altered since conversion but retains round central ceiling rose with carved acanthus and other detail and re-used cast-iron balusters to balcony. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: River Street and its Neighbourhood: Truro: 1980-).
Listing NGR: SW8240444884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 377575
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
River Street and its Neighbourhood, (1980)
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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