Description

PERRANZABULOE GOONHAVERN
SW 75 SE
5/69 Goonhavern Methodist Church, with
forecourt walls gate and
adjoining schoolroom
-
GV II

Nonconformist chapel, forecourt walls and gate and adjoining school room. Circa
early C19 schoolroom. Circa late C19 chapel. Killas rubble walls with brick
dressings. Asbestos slate roof with pedimented gable at the entrance front.
Plan: Rectangular aisle-less plan probably with galleries on 3 sides. Schoolroom
adjoining at rear and small room probably a former vestry (now used as a funeral
directors) at far rear. Schoolroom is possibly the original chapel.
Exterior: Unaltered 2-storey elevations (chapel) and single-storey schoolroom.
Symmetrical 3-window south-west pedimented entrance front with central round-arched
doorway. Plinth impost strings (string continues as hoodmould over first-floor
windows). Cogged upper cornice to triangular pediment, stepped lower cornice.
Round-headed window openings. Original doors and windows. Traceried tympanum over
pair of V-jointed, boarded doors. Horned sashes with glazing bars and fanlight heads
(3 similar windows to each side wall). Schoolroom has 3-window north-west front with
doorway on its left. Original door and windows; 4-panel door, 16-pane hornless
sashes. Cement coped rubble walls at roadside adjoining front left-hand side of
entrance front. Original braced iron gates.
Interior: Unaltered interior has gallery with panelled front, moulded plaster
ceiling cornices and an elaborate central ceiling rose with acanthus detail.

Listing NGR: SW7889553788

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599046

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