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Latitude: 50.3666 / 50°21'59"N
Longitude: -5.0608 / 5°3'38"W
OS Eastings: 182421
OS Northings: 56338
OS Grid: SW824563
Mapcode National: GBR ZD.CZSH
Mapcode Global: FRA 0892.D6N
Plus Code: 9C2P9W8Q+MM
Entry Name: Newlyn Preaching Pit and Storehouse
Listing Date: 16 November 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1141454
English Heritage Legacy ID: 63972
ID on this website: 101141454
Location: St Newlyn East, Cornwall, TR8
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: St. Newlyn East
Built-Up Area: St Newlyn East
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: St Newlyn
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Architectural structure
ST NEWLYN EAST CARGOLL ROAD
SW 85 NW
(South side)
1/33 Newlyn Preaching Pit and
storehouse.
--- II
Weslyan preaching pit. Late C18 or early C19. Earth and moorstone. An
open-air theatre of 7 grades of seats formed in an excavation around a
circular orchestra, capable of holding 2000 persons. On east side a
pulpit platform of semicircular form springs from the 3rd grade. Upper
grades are supported on a Cornish hedge compensating for the fall in
ground. Entrance directly off road, through late C19 iron gates with
overthrow between incurved stone flanking walls. Within, on left, a
storeroom with furnace, rubble stone with slurried slate roof. Entrance
in west gable end, and window on south. Interior has remains of hearth
and boiler with stack on east gable. Preaching pits found favour with John
Wesley for their direct simplicity and egalitarianism after his successful
mission to Gwennap mine in 1762. Only three such pits now survive.
Listing NGR: SW8242156338
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