Description

CAMELFORD HELSTONE
SX 08 SE
4/52 Helstone Methodist Church
- (previously listed as Noncomformist
17.12.62 Chapel, Helstone)
GV II

Small Methodist Chapel, built as a Wesleyan Meeting House. 1826 (datestone). Stone
rubble with granite quoins. Slate roof with hipped ends.
Plan: Rectangular plan with entrance in higher right hand end. Late C20 porch added
in lean-to extension on right hand end.
Symmetrical 2-window front to road with entrance in right hand side; C20 lean-to
extension with slate lean-to roof and C19 6-panel door to original entrance within.
Lunette tablet above dated 1826. Front elevation has two 2-centred dressed stone
arches to window openings; late C19 horned sashes with intersecting glazing bars and
the glass to the lower lights replaced with obscured glass in the late C20. 2
similar window openings on rear elevation with brick dressings and early C20 sashes
with intersecting glazing bars. The lower left hand side wall has two 2-centred
arched openings to the windows which have intersecting glazing bars and crown glass.
Interior : Simple pitch pine pews and rostrum with moulded cornice and fluted
pilasters replacing original fittings.
Stell, C. RCHM unpublished inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels
Shaw, T. Methodism in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit, 1743-1963 1963

Listing NGR: SX0891881370

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26435519

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)