Camborne Methodist Church
CAMBORNE METHODIST CHURCH, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328117
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Camborne Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- CAMBORNE METHODIST CHURCH, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328117
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Camborne Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAMBORNE METHODIST CHURCH, CHAPEL STREET
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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:
- CAMBORNE METHODIST CHURCH, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 64728 39956
Details
CAMBORNE CHAPEL STREET SW 63 NW (east side) 10/25 Camborne Methodist Church GV II
Methodist church, formerly known as Camborne Wesley chapel. 1828, altered in 1911. Granite ashlar facade, with sides and rear of uncoursed killas rubble (south side rendered); slate roof. Rectangular plan on east- west axis, gable to road. Classical style. Two storeys and 5 bays, symmetrical, with a pediment over the 3 centre bays, and banded corner pilasters. At ground floor the original porch has been extended to make a continuous portico with a 3-bay arcaded centre formed by 2 pairs of fluted Doric columns in antis (the original porch) protecting 3 round-headed doorways with panelled double doors and semicircular fanlight tracery, and enclosed gallery entrances with round-headed windows in the outer bays, all under a plain frieze and moulded cornice; the 1st floor has 5 round- headed windows, those in the 3-bay centre (which breaks forward slightly) linked by an impost band; all the windows have early C20 joinery with a hooped centre and margin panes; the facade is finished with a band, a deep frieze with 3 raised panels in the centre and ramped ends, moulded cornice and pediment. The windows of the 5-bay side walls are square- headed at ground floor and round-headed above. Rear extension including school, not of special interest. Interior: horse-shoe gallery supported on iron columns with stiff-leaf capitals, with mahogany panelled front; fluted Corinthian pilasters to basket-arched apse (formerly orchestra, now choir gallery); former 'City Road' arrangement of communion rail behind pulpit replaced by C20 rostrum with communion rail in front. References: J.C.C.Probert The Architecture of Cornish Methodism (1966); Thomas Shaw A History of Cornish Methodism (1967).
Listing NGR: SW6472839956
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66570
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Probert, J C C, The Architecture of Cornish Methodism, (1966)
Shaw, T, A History of Cornish Methodism, (1967)
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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