Trevenson Church
TREVENSON CHURCH, CHUCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310537
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trevenson Church
- Statutory Address:
- TREVENSON CHURCH, CHUCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310537
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Trevenson Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- TREVENSON CHURCH, CHUCH 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:
- TREVENSON CHURCH, CHUCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Carn Brea
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 66641 41836
Details
CARN BREA CHURCH ROAD SW 64 SE (east side) 5/145 Pool Trevenson Church II Church. Built 1806-9 by the Basset family of Tehidy as a chapel of ease to the Church of St Illogan, Illogan (q.v.); tower added subsequently; slightly altered. Uncoursed killas rubble with granite quoins, compostion slate roof; tower of snecked granite. Nave, small chancel, west tower partly embraced by nave. Gothick style. The narrow 3-stage tower has angle buttresses to the 1st stage only, weathered bands to the upper stages, which are slightly set back, and an embattled over-sailing parapet; a 2-centred arched west doorway with chamfered surround and hoodmould and a square headed window above this with 3 round- headed lights and hoodmould, a clockface in the front of the 2nd stage and circular windows with diamond leaded glazing in the sides, all with hoodmoulds; and louvred 2-light belfry windows with hoodmoulds. The tall rectangular nave has 2 large and widely spaced 2-centred arched 2-light windows in each side wall, all with Y-tacery and delicate intersecting tracery incorporating trefoils and a quatrefoil in the heads, diamond lattice glazing below, and narrow margin panes: all this executed in cast iron; and between the windows on the north side there is the outline of another (either not built, or removed). There is an apex cross on the east gable; and the short one-bay chancel has a stepped triple- lancet east window. Interior: plain west gallery on 2 cast-iron columns, and above this a plaster coat of arms; on the south wall, a large painting (The Dead Saviour, Virgin and Angels) by John Bryant Lane, commissioned by Lord de Dunstanville of Tehidy in 1808 as an altar piece.
Listing NGR: SW6664141836
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66693
- 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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