Description

SX 15 SW LANTEGLOS-BY-FOWEY WEST STREET, POLRUAN

8/91 Methodist Chapel -

- II

Wesleyan Chapel, now Methodist Chapel, 1880 foundation stone. Designed by Mr Hicks of Redruth. Snecked grey limestone blocks with ashlar quoins and freestone dressings. Symmetrical gabled south front with slate roof. Free Gothic style. Gabled south front (ritual west) with central entrance in coped gabled stone porch with corner buttresses. Pitch pine diagonal boarded 3 panel double doors flanked by pilasters supporting 2 centred arch with foiled tracery in tympanum. Flanked by 2 engaged pinnacled octagonal turrets rising from tall square bases and rising above gable apex with engaged shafts near top with blind arcading above surmounted by pinnacles which were once possibly decorated with finials. Flanked on ground floor by 2 lancet windows with foiled tracery within. Large central rose window above porch. Angle buttresses on corners. Cast iron railings Complete interior with raked seating with pitch pine benches. Pitch pine rostrum and rails. Dado panelling. Plastered ceiling is hammer beam in profile.

Listing NGR: SX1244750965

External Links

• Wikidata Q26433101

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)