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Methodist Church and Forecourt Wall, Railings and Gateway

A Grade II* Listed Building in Porthleven, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.086 / 50°5'9"N

Longitude: -5.3149 / 5°18'53"W

OS Eastings: 162964

OS Northings: 25923

OS Grid: SW629259

Mapcode National: GBR FX8G.67S

Mapcode Global: VH138.T3KC

Plus Code: 9C2P3MPP+C2

Entry Name: Methodist Church and Forecourt Wall, Railings and Gateway

Listing Date: 22 May 1990

Last Amended: 9 February 1994

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1208344

English Heritage Legacy ID: 385475

ID on this website: 101208344

Location: Porthleven, Cornwall, TR13

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Porthleven

Built-Up Area: Porthleven

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Porthleven

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description



HELSTON

SW6225 FORE STREET, Porthleven
631-1/6/255 (South East side)
22/05/90 Methodist Church and forecourt wall,
railings and gateway
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
Methodist Church, including front
area, wall, railings and gateway)

GV II*

Nonconformist chapel. 1883 datestone. Slatestone rubble with
granite dressings including plinth, strings, kneelers and
copings; asbestos slate roof with some courses of fishscale
slate resembling features of original dry Delabole slate roof.
Rectangular aisleless plan with gallery on 4 sides; pair of
entrances and staircases at ritual west end; organ loft
projection at ritual east end. Gothic Revival style.
Tall single-storey elevations with side windows shared by
galleries. NW entrance front is 3 bays with wider central bay
flanked by weathered buttresses surmounted by open bellcotes
with pinnacles; end buttresses to octagonal pseudo bellcotes
with pinnacles and finials. Central bay has gable ventilator
over large 5-light traceried window with pointed lights and
central rose; coloured leaded glass; sill string.
Ground floor has pair of gabled doorways flanking a central
buttress; stepped trefoil-headed overlights and original
panelled doors. Side walls are 4:1 bays with stair bays
flanked by pinnacled buttresses; all bay with paired transomed
lancets with round tracery; similar end buttresses.
INTERIOR: large auditorium with oval between gallery with
panelled front carried on slender iron columns;
trefoil-on-section barrel ceiling with heavy moulded cornice
and visible steel tie rods. Fittings: original pitch pine pews
except for small number removed at the front; tiered pews to
gallery; balustraded rostrum and communion rail in front;
organ with round-arched panels in round-arched apse.
Subsidiary features: forecourt has low slatestone walls with
granite coping surmounted by ornate cast-iron railings between
gabled granite piers including central gate piers with arched
panels, overthrow and pair of cast-iron gates.
HISTORY: this large Wesleyan chapel was built at a cost of
ยป3,500, including the site and the chapel-keeper's house (qv).
(Kelly's Directory of Devonshire and Cornwall: 1902-1902:
273).


Listing NGR: SW6296425923

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