Redruth Methodist Church

REDRUTH WESLEY STREET SW 74 SW (south side) 11/316 Redruth Methodist Church GV II Methodist church. Dated 1826 in gable. Granite ashlar facade; otherwise, slobbered granite rubble; slate roof. Rectangular plan, 6 x 8 bays, gable to road. Two storeys and 6 bays, symmetrical, in simple classical style; the pedimented facade has a 1st floor band (carried round the whole), and a 4-bay ground floor colonnade between projected porches to the 1st and 6th bays; the porches, which are of channelled masonry, rectangular in plan and flat-roofed, each have a large round-headed doorway with rusticated voussoirs and large keystone; the colonnade, of slender Tuscan columns with a plain frieze, protects round-headed doorways in the 2nd and 5th bays, and round-headed windows in the 3rd and 4th bays; all these doorways have panelled double doors with quadrantal overlights; between the windows is an added war memorial. The 1st floor has 6 round- headed windows, and the pedimented gable contains panels with raised lettering:- "WESLEY" "1826" "CHAPEL" and added lettering below this:- "REDRUTH METHODIST CHURCH" " The return walls have 8 round-headed windows on each floor. Interior: a continuous gallery carried on fluted iron columns with foliated capitals, the gallery front having rounded open panels containing cast bronze open-work; flat ceiling with pierced roundels; very ornate late C19 pulpit, and on the wall behind this, 3 round-headed wooden Commandment Tables; large and ornamental organ case mounted on gallery above pulpit.

Listing NGR: SW7012542078

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 26 October 2017.