Redruth Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Church. 1 related planning application.
Redruth Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- inner-terrace-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Redruth Methodist Church, Wesley Street, TR15 2EG
- OS grid reference
- SW 701 420
- Coordinates
- 50.23389, -5.22482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Redruth Methodist Church is a Methodist church dated 1826, located on Wesley Street in Redruth. The church features a granite ashlar facade, with the rest of the structure built from slobbered granite rubble and topped with a slate roof. It has a rectangular plan measuring 6 by 8 bays, with its gable facing the road.
The building is two storeys high and displays a symmetrical, simple classical style. The pedimented facade includes a first-floor band that runs around the entire building, and a four-bay ground floor colonnade situated between projected porches at the first and sixth bays. These porches are made of channelled masonry, are rectangular in shape, and have flat roofs. Each porch features a large round-headed doorway with rusticated voussoirs and a prominent keystone. The colonnade consists of slender Tuscan columns supporting a plain frieze, which protects round-headed doorways in the second and fifth bays, as well as round-headed windows in the third and fourth bays. All doorways are fitted with panelled double doors and quadrantal overlights, and between the windows is an added war memorial.
On the first floor, there are six round-headed windows, and the pedimented gable displays panels with raised lettering that reads: "WESLEY," "1826," and "CHAPEL," along with additional lettering below stating "REDRUTH METHODIST CHURCH." The return walls of the church have eight round-headed windows on each floor.
Inside, the church features a continuous gallery supported by fluted iron columns with foliated capitals. The gallery front has rounded open panels containing cast bronze open-work. The ceiling is flat and adorned with pierced roundels. There is a very ornate late 19th-century pulpit, and on the wall behind it, three round-headed wooden Commandment Tables are displayed. An elaborate organ case is mounted on the gallery above the pulpit.
Local climate
Redruth Methodist Church receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings