Goonhavern Methodist Church, With Forecourt Walls Gate and Adjoining Schoolroom
GOONHAVERN METHODIST CHURCH, WITH FORECOURT WALLS GATE AND ADJOINING SCHOOLROOM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312552
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Goonhavern Methodist Church, With Forecourt Walls Gate and Adjoining Schoolroom
- Statutory Address:
- GOONHAVERN METHODIST CHURCH, WITH FORECOURT WALLS GATE AND ADJOINING SCHOOLROOM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312552
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Goonhavern Methodist Church, With Forecourt Walls Gate and Adjoining Schoolroom
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOONHAVERN METHODIST CHURCH, WITH FORECOURT WALLS GATE AND ADJOINING SCHOOLROOM
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:
- GOONHAVERN METHODIST CHURCH, WITH FORECOURT WALLS GATE AND ADJOINING SCHOOLROOM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Perranzabuloe
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7889553788
Details
PERRANZABULOE GOONHAVERN
SW 75 SE
5/69 Goonhavern Methodist Church, with
forecourt walls gate and
adjoining schoolroom
-
GV II
Nonconformist chapel, forecourt walls and gate and adjoining school room. Circa
early C19 schoolroom. Circa late C19 chapel. Killas rubble walls with brick
dressings. Asbestos slate roof with pedimented gable at the entrance front.
Plan: Rectangular aisle-less plan probably with galleries on 3 sides. Schoolroom
adjoining at rear and small room probably a former vestry (now used as a funeral
directors) at far rear. Schoolroom is possibly the original chapel.
Exterior: Unaltered 2-storey elevations (chapel) and single-storey schoolroom.
Symmetrical 3-window south-west pedimented entrance front with central round-arched
doorway. Plinth impost strings (string continues as hoodmould over first-floor
windows). Cogged upper cornice to triangular pediment, stepped lower cornice.
Round-headed window openings. Original doors and windows. Traceried tympanum over
pair of V-jointed, boarded doors. Horned sashes with glazing bars and fanlight heads
(3 similar windows to each side wall). Schoolroom has 3-window north-west front with
doorway on its left. Original door and windows; 4-panel door, 16-pane hornless
sashes. Cement coped rubble walls at roadside adjoining front left-hand side of
entrance front. Original braced iron gates.
Interior: Unaltered interior has gallery with panelled front, moulded plaster
ceiling cornices and an elaborate central ceiling rose with acanthus detail.
Listing NGR: SW7889553788
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63708
- 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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