Pool Methodist Church
POOL METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328159
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Pool Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- POOL METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
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- 2002-09-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/08105/32
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328159
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Pool Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOL METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
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:
- POOL METHODIST CHURCH, FORE STREET
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 67136 41530
Details
CARN BREA FORE STREET SW 64 SE (south side) 5/146 Pool Pool Methodist Church
II Wesleyan Methodist chapel. Dated 1862 in gable; enlarged 1865; altered. Snecked killas with granite quoins and dressings, sides and rear of uncoursed rubble, modern pantiled roof. Rectangular plan on north-south axis, 3x6 bays (originally 3x3), gable to road. Two storeys; the symmetrical 3-bay facade has a wide basket-arched doorway in the centre, with panelled doors and an overlight, a round-headed window above the door, and tall round-headed windows on each side (their heads at the same level), all these openings with long-and-short voussoirs and raised keystones; the gable contains a moulded roundel with the date "1862", and marks round the margin of its triangle suggest that the dressings of a former simple pediment have been removed. Ridge ventilator on roof. The side walls have a quoined vertical joint to the rear of the 3rd bay, and 16-pane sashed windows on both floors, and the east side has tall doorways in the 5th and 6th bays. Interior: horseshoe gallery on iron Tuscan columns with coupled brackets supporting a jettied front which is panelled; basket-arched apse to choir gallery (containing organ) with classical-style architrave including pilasters with imposts, moulded cornice, and small pediment with acanthus decoration; rostrum supported by low Tuscan colonnade, deck protected by Gothic-style trefoil arcading and approached by elegant curved staircases rising from the rear.
Listing NGR: SW6713641530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66694
- 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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