Description

SW 98 SE ST ENDELLION ROSCARROCK HILL, (south side),
Port Isaac
9/120 Roscarrock Hill Methodist Church
- and Church rooms adjoining on left
GV II
Methodist chapel and church rooms. 1837 and 1867. Original chapel on left erected
in 1837 and converted to school rooms when second chapel built adjoining in 1867.
Stone rubble with slate roof with hipped ends. Ground floor originally used as
cellar with chapel on first floor.
3 storeys symmetrical 3-window front. Central entrance in ground floor, originally
to cellar, now church rooms with C20 glazed doors. 2 flights of stone rubble steps
flank this entrance, meeting above at entrance to first floor which has double 6-
panel doors in round-arched opening with slate hipped porch. 2 C19 sashes with
Gothic glazing bars in round brick arches on first and second floors with blocked
oculus in centre above entrance. Bellcote above.
Later chapel erected in 1867 of stone rubble with slate roof with hipped ends.
Symmetrical 5-window front with 3 full height openings at centre with round arch
heads. Ground floor with brick segmental arches to openings and entrances on right
and left with double 6-panel doors and fanlights above. First floor windows with
radiating glazing bars and round brick arches.
Interior of chapel with gallery continuing on 3 sides on cast iron columns with
stylised capitals. Fielded panels to balcony with raked seating. The arrangement on
the ground floor has been altered and re-orientated with the rostrum moved from the
north to the south end and the original benches have been replaced with chairs.
Despite these alterations however, the chapel retains many of its original fittings.
Important elevations to west side of the harbour. Unusually the methodist chapel at
Port Isaac possesses a bell. The old Port Isaac chapel of 1800 appears to have had a
belfry and the bell in the 1837 chapel was replaced with a ship's bell in 1862, taken
from the Bencoolen which was wrecked off the Bude Coast.
Shaw, T. Methodism in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit 1743-1963 1963.
Stell, C. An Inventory of Non Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses.

Listing NGR: SW9960480743

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579265

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)