Description

SW 94 SW RUAN LANIHORNE

5/17 Methodist chapel, manse and - adjoining wall and iron railings

- II

Methodist chapel, manse, wall, gate piers and iron railings, all adjoining. 1869 datestone over door. Slatestone rubble with granite dressings and Delabole slate gable roofs with brick axial chimney to manse. Gothic style. Rectangular aisless plan with apsidal ritual east end with ramp linking chapel to first floor doorway of manse. West entrance chapel front has: central, pointed arched granite doorway in porch with original double doors; flanking trefoil headed single light lancet windows; small coped gable over porch and flat roofs over windows; diagonal corner buttresses with granite quoins and weatherings and central granite rose window in granite coped gable. 3 windows to each side of chapel. Manse situated at ritual east end at right angles to side road and linked to chapel by ramp to first floor rear. 2 storeys. 4 windows. 3 cusped lancets to schoolroom part first floor left, door with cambered brick arch off centre and manse window to right. Ground floor has wide carriage door to left and entrance to manse is to far right under small lean-to porch. Interior of chapel has original pine pews with shaped ends; trefoil arcaded alter rail with trefoils in spandrels and arch braced roof with pierced spandrels. Coped slatestone rubble wall encloses courtyard surrounding chapel. West side has 4 square granite posts with shaped pyramidal caps. Iron gates to middle posts and flanking iron railings over low granite coped wall.

Listing NGR: SW9039641068

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)