Description

TRURO

SW8244NW KENWYN STREET
880-1/6/111 (North side)
Dowty's

GV II

Nonconformist (Primitive Methodist) chapel, later the City
Mission, now used as a shop. 1878. Dressed granite brought to
course. Steep Delabole slate roofs with coped gable at the
front. Main roof and lean-to roofs over same timber structure.
Rectangular single-vessel plan. Gothic style. Symmetrical
south entrance front has central tall buttressed gable end
flanked by lean-tos resembling aisles with splayed corners.
Shallow central gabled porch with pointed-arched doorway;
flanking lancets, moulded string, rose window over porch and 3
stepped lights to gable. Buttresses are surmounted by tall
pinnacles. Side walls are lit by tall lancets, main lighting
is from long wooden clerestorey windows with pointed-arched
lights. INTERIOR: Arch-braced roof structure with laminated
braces. Clerestorey windows carried over roof structure.
(The Truro Buildings Research Group: River Street and its
Neighbourhood).

Listing NGR: SW8243144829

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26497187

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)