Description

NEWQUAY BEACHFIELD AVENUE, Newquay
SW 8061-8161
16/112 Claremont Methodist Church with
- attached church hall
II

Methodist church with attached church hall. Church dated 1895 on foundation stone,
the church hall dated 1900. Squared stone rubble with granite dressings, and rock-
faced granite quoins. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends.
Plan: Three parallel ranges with gable ends to the road; the church to the left has
a single auditorium plan, with entrance at the front gable end and ritual east to
rear. Church hall attached at the right side attached by a linking corridor. Gothic
style, loosely Early English.
Exterior: The church has the central bay of the front gable end broken forward with
pilasters surmounted by corbelled pyramidal pinnacles with finials. Central double
doors with Gothic panelling and fanlight, gabled hood with continuous hood mould.
Bandcourse with blank cusped panels above and quatrefoil in the gable set in a
roundel. Right and left of the centre bay a single pointed arched light with hood
mould. Corridor at the right side with double doors, linking the church to the
church hall. This is 2-storey, with gable end front with 4 single shouldered arched
lights at ground floor and datestone set in a gable over the band course. First
floor has triple window with central paired trefoil-headed lights and plate tracery;
single light to each side, continuous hood mould with frieze of trefoils over.
Raised coped verges to the gable and rusticated quoins. The left side of the church
has 2 pointed arched windows and a wing to left with single pointed arched light and
hipped roof.
Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW8097261682

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26612774

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