Schoolroom to Townsend Methodist Church, Adjoining Outbuildings and Courtyard Walls

SCHOOLROOM TO TOWNSEND METHODIST CHURCH, ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS AND COURTYARD WALLS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1310534
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
Schoolroom to Townsend Methodist Church, Adjoining Outbuildings and Courtyard Walls
Statutory Address:
SCHOOLROOM TO TOWNSEND METHODIST CHURCH, ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS AND COURTYARD WALLS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1310534
Date first listed:
26-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:
Schoolroom to Townsend Methodist Church, Adjoining Outbuildings and Courtyard Walls
Statutory Address 1:
SCHOOLROOM TO TOWNSEND METHODIST CHURCH, ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS AND COURTYARD WALLS

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
SCHOOLROOM TO TOWNSEND METHODIST CHURCH, ADJOINING OUTBUILDINGS AND COURTYARD WALLS

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

District:
Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Crowan
National Grid Reference:
SW 59171 32910

Details

SW 53 SE CROWAN TOWNSHEND

3/177 Schoolroom to Townshend Methodist - Church, adjoining outbuildings and courtyard walls GV II

Non-conformist chapel, since circa 1871 the schoolroom of Townshend Methodist Church qv., including the adjoining outbuildings and the front courtyard walls. Circa early Cl9, extended circa mid C19. Painted rubble walls. Plan : rectangular aisle-less plan with rectangular vestry adjoining the right hand gable end and traphouse right of the vestry, both stepped back from the front. Single storey. 3 window east front. Pointed arched window openings with original hornless sashes with intersecting glazing bars. The doorway is to the left of the middle window, Original 12 pane, hornless sashes at rear of chapel and a 16 pane hornless sash at rear of vestry. Painted low rubble-coped rubble walls enclose a rectangular courtyard in front of schoolroom and vestry. Round-headed granite monolithic gate piers and iron gate to gateway aligned with schoolroom doorway. Interior : very simple with boarded ceiling and plastered walls.

Listing NGR: SW5917132910

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
65881
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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