Description

ST ERVAN RUMFORD
SW 87 SE
Church of St Ervan
Methodist Church including forecourt walls, gate-piers and gate

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Methodist chapel. Circa late C19. Slate rubble with dressed granite quoins, windows
and doorway. Delabole slate roof with gabled ends with moulded bargeboards and
exposed rafter ends under the deep eaves.
Plan: Single cell chapel with the entrance at the west end through a small porch and
the rostrum at the east end. The vestry is in a small wing attached to the east end
of the north side: the vestry wing also incorporates what may be a privy.
Exterior: Single storey. The gabled end is the west front; it has 2 trefoil-headed
lancets with chamfered granite frames with a ventilation slit above in the gable and
a hipped roof porch below with a chamfered pointed arch doorway in a gable at the
front; plank double doors with ornate wrought-iron hinges and a small slit window on
either side of the porch. The porch roof has moulded bargeboards and exposed rafter
ends.
The north and south sides have 3 windows in chamfered granite frames, each with 2
trefoil-headed lights, the easternmost window on east side has a higher sill level.
All the windows have leaded panes of stained glass. There is no window in the east
end but a ventilation slit high up in the gable.
On the right north side of the chapel at the east end a small gable-ended vestry with
a ventilation slit in the gable, a C20 plank door below and a window on the outer
north side similar to the north and south windows of the auditorium but smaller. The
vestry has a red brick chimney stack. There is a small gable-ended building attached
to the front of the vestry with a doorway on its inner side; this may be a privy.
Including the forecourt walls, of slate rubble with pitched slate capping, small
monolithic granite gate-piers with rounded heads and a C19 wrought-iron gate.
Interior is simple though complete; it has plain plastered walls and the open roof
has scissor-braced trusses. Simple pine benches with rounded ends and a rostrum at
the east end with cusped panels and a rail with wrought iron stanchions. The vestry
is also unaltered and has a small ornate cast-iron chimney-piece in the corner with a
slate tablet above inscribed-Methodist Chapel 1830, presumably from the former
chapel, now the Women's Institute Hall qv.

Listing NGR: SW8969970298

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507442

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)