Former Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School)
St Stephen Pharmacy, 65, Fore Street, St Stephen, PL26 7NW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386522
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School)
- Statutory Address:
- St Stephen Pharmacy, 65, Fore Street, St Stephen, PL26 7NW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386522
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School)
- Statutory Address 1:
- St Stephen Pharmacy, 65, Fore Street, St Stephen, PL26 7NW
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:
- St Stephen Pharmacy, 65, Fore Street, St Stephen, PL26 7NW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Stephen-in-Brannel
- National Grid Reference:
- SW9440953477
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 September 2025 to amend the name and address and description due to a change in building use, and to reformat the text to current standards
SW 95 SW
1530/3/10002
ST STEPHEN IN BRANNEL
ST STEPHENS
FORE STREET
No 65, St Stephen Pharmacy
Former Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School)
(Formerly listed as Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School))
GV
II
Former Nonconformist chapel and attached school. 1870 datestone, re-fitted 1890s. St Stephens granite brought to course and with granite dressings; state roof. Rectangular aisleless plan with end gallery over entrance plus choir gallery at ritual east end plus organ within apse, now within later C19 schoolroom added at rear. Single-storey elevations; three bay entrance front with semi-circular arched openings including window over central doorway and tatter flanking windows. The windows, and fanlight over doors, have Y tracery and margin glazing; V-jointed boards to pair of doors. later windows to original openings to side elevations.
INTERIOR; has moulded ceiling cornices and ornate ceiling rose, the walls plastered and blocked out to resemble ashlar. Window openings have segmental pediments over pilasters. Pilastered and panelled gallery front has cast-iron inserts to panels and dentilled cornice above. The gallery has quadrant corners; its otherwise straight front stands on a moulded cornice and this is cantilevered out on brackets all supported by two slender near Ionic columns. There is a panelled screen to the entrance and stair hall. At the other end of the chapel is a choir gallery with similar detail to its flat front. The organ apse has a moulded eliptical arch and carved spandrels.
FITTINGS; of note include pilastered and balustraded three-bay stepped rostrum with quadrant corners to the articulated front; communion rail in front of rostrum; three bay piped organ and pitch-pine pews with shaped ends.
There are a number of similar classical-style chapels which date up to the 1870s in Restormel District, but this is one of the best examples.
Listing NGR: SW9440953477
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473912
- 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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