Chygrysys
CHYGRYSYS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328063
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Chygrysys
- Statutory Address:
- CHYGRYSYS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328063
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chygrysys
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHYGRYSYS
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:
- CHYGRYSYS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Altarnun
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 22391 81224
Details
ALTARNUN ALTARNUN SX 28 SW 4/77 (9/5) Chygrysys (formerly listed as 22/11/60 Methodist Sunday School)
GV II
Wesleyan chapel, later Sunday School, now converted to private house. 1795, enlarged, altered, or rebuilt in 1836 (datestone). Stone rubble with granite dressings. Slate roof with hipped end to front. Plan: Overall rectangular plan. Originally with stables and store on ground floor and meeting room above, approached by an external flight of steps on the front elevation. Exterior: Two storey elevation to road with central stone rubble and granite flight of steps with iron balustrade, leading up to the entrance. The steps are set forward and there is a plank door to the store below them. C19 plank double doors to store and stable on left. The first floor has a central entrance with probably C19 double doors, flanked by two horned probably C19 36-pane sashes with some crown glass. The granite lintels above these windows have been continued to form a continuous granite string band below the eaves. Directly above the entrance is a carved relief of a bust of John Wesley dated 1836. This was carved by the local sculptor Nevil Northey Burnard whose birth place is commemorated by a plaque on the adjacent cottage (qv Penpont Mill). Interior altered when converted to house in the late C20. Stell, C. RCHM inventory of Methodist Chapels
Listing NGR: SX2239181223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 68295
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stell, C, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in South West England, (1991)
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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