Description

SW 62 NE WENDRON TREWENNACK

7/403 Trewennack Methodist Church
- including schoolroom and associated
courtyard walls, gate-piers and
gates

II

Methodist chapel, including adjoining schoolroom and associated walls gate-piers and
gates. Granite rubble with dressings. Asbestos slate hipped roof over chapel with
slightly projecting eaves and cast-iron ogee-section gutters; dry Delabole slate roof
with gable ends to schoolroom.
Plan: Chapel is a rectangular aisle-less plan with canted organ over vestry
projecting at the left-hand approximately (north) end. Porch to middle of west
entrance front. Schoolroom adjoins front right hand corner and has entrance from
chapel forecourt into left-hand end.
Exterior: Chapel has symmetrical 3 window west road front. Originally there were 3
tall round-headed sashes but the lower part of wider central window is partly blocked
since later C19 porch was added. Original hornless sashes with fanlight heads (front
and rear) except that upper sash of left-hand window is horned copy. Central window
has marginal panes. Porch has central 2-light traceried window with coloured
marginal panes to the round-headed arched lights. Pair of original doors in right-
hand wall. Rear is unaltered. Right-hand end has C20 windows in original round-
headed openings. There is an original 16-pane hornless sash at ground floor on the
right.
Interior: Walls parallel to the entrance front have round-headed granite monolithic
piers. C19 ogee-headed wrought iron gates with overthrow and lantern. Walls to
south end of south courtyard have similar piers and there is a granite stile on the
right.

Listing NGR: SW6807628816

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456178

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