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Latitude: 50.1013 / 50°6'4"N
Longitude: -5.2731 / 5°16'23"W
OS Eastings: 166031
OS Northings: 27483
OS Grid: SW660274
Mapcode National: GBR Z1.0PXB
Mapcode Global: VH133.KQ57
Plus Code: 9C2P4P2G+GQ
Entry Name: Former Baptist Church
Listing Date: 18 January 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1209551
English Heritage Legacy ID: 385594
ID on this website: 101209551
Location: Helston, Cornwall, TR13
County: Cornwall
Civil Parish: Helston
Built-Up Area: Helston
Traditional County: Cornwall
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall
Church of England Parish: Helston
Church of England Diocese: Truro
Tagged with: Protestant church building
HELSTON
SW6527 WENDRON STREET
631-1/5/244 (South East side)
18/01/94 Former Baptist Church
GV II
Non-conformist chapel, now commercial premises. 1836. By
Philip Sambell. Elvan ashlar with granite dressings to visible
coped front gable; ground floor obscured by C20 extension;
roof not visible. Rectangular aisleless plan. Norman Revival
style. 2 storeys; symmetrical 5-bay 3-window 1st-floor range.
2-light casements with 2-pane fanlights and alternate blind
ashlar openings within ordered arches with engaged columns and
window aprons with arcade of 5 round arches; impost string and
string to bottom of 3-bay gable with central bay with central
deeply recessed rose windows with roll-moulded architrave
under stepped gable with pseudo machicolation and central
octagonal finial; flanking recessed panels with nook-shafts.
INTERIOR not accessible at time of survey. Although partly
obscured, the visible robust architecture of this building
makes a strong contribution to the character of this street.
It is a striking example of non-conformist chapel architecture
of the period, similar in design to the chapel at Clarence
Street, Penzance, also by Sambell, a noteworthy Cornish
architect whose work includes the Lander column and other
commissions in Truro.
(Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects
1600-1840: London: 1978-: 711).
Listing NGR: SW6603127483
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