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The Chapel Including Wall and Balustrades

A Grade II Listed Building in Falmouth, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.146 / 50°8'45"N

Longitude: -5.0628 / 5°3'46"W

OS Eastings: 181271

OS Northings: 31822

OS Grid: SW812318

Mapcode National: GBR ZD.TZ5Z

Mapcode Global: FRA 088M.RFW

Plus Code: 9C2P4WWP+CV

Entry Name: The Chapel Including Wall and Balustrades

Listing Date: 24 April 1996

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1270089

English Heritage Legacy ID: 460126

ID on this website: 101270089

Location: Cornwall, TR11

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Falmouth

Built-Up Area: Falmouth

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Falmouth King Charles the Martyr

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description



FALMOUTH

SW83SW CLIFF ROAD
843-1/2/82 (South side)
The Chapel, including wall and
balustrades

GV II

Summer house in former private garden of Gyllyngdune estate,
possibly used as a chapel but never consecrated. c1840s for
the Revd William Coope, rector of Falmouth 1838-1870. Rubble
with red brick dressings; fish-scale scantle slate gabled roof
with exposed purlins, shaped and pierced quatrefoil and dagger
barge boards with turned finials and pendants.
Small cruciform, near rectangular plan with balustraded walk
around it and serving as a bridge over a waterfront walk (in
the style of a rustic cave) and linked to steps and walls
giving access to Steps (qv) and tunnel to beach.
Gothic Revival style. Central pointed-arched doorway with
hood-mould, pair of planked doors and iron gate with scrolled
crest to landward end. Flat-headed window to each side gable
and to seaward end, all with hood-moulds and boarded up at
time of survey; crosses above side windows.
INTERIOR: well-detailed waggon roof with cross vault and
moulded under-purlins and lower arched bracing.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: red brick balustrades between piers with
stepped pyramidal caps around the building, winder steps down
to path and wall with similar piers and balustrades continuing
along the seaward side towards, and recessed parallel to the
Steps (qv), giving access to the beach, and slightly beyond.
HISTORY: the Revd William Coope was the "unchallenged pioneer"
of Tractarianism within the Anglican Church in Cornwall.
Prominent position on sea front.
(Working Party of District Councillors: The Princess Pavilion
and Gyllyngdune Gardens (future plan): 1992-).


Listing NGR: SW8127131822

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