Church Of St Ervan (Methodist)

The Church of St Ervan is a Methodist chapel dating to the late 19th century, located in Rumford. It is constructed of slate rubble with dressed granite quoins, window frames, and a Delabole slate roof. The roof features gabled ends with moulded bargeboards and exposed rafter ends under deep eaves.

The chapel’s plan is a simple single cell, with the main entrance at the west end, leading to a small porch, and a rostrum at the east end. A small wing attached to the north side contains a vestry. This vestry wing may also incorporate a former privy.

The west front, with its gabled end, features two trefoil-headed lancet windows, a ventilation slit in the gable above, and a hipped roof porch below. The porch has a chamfered pointed arch doorway, plank double doors with ornate wrought-iron hinges, and small slit windows on either side. The north and south sides each have three windows with two trefoil-headed lights in chamfered granite frames. The easternmost window on the east side has a higher sill level. All windows have leaded panes of stained glass. The east end has a ventilation slit, but no window.

Attached to the right side of the vestry is a small gable-ended building with a ventilation slit in the gable, a 20th-century plank door, and a window on the outer north side, similar to the auditorium windows but smaller. A red brick chimney stack rises from the vestry. A small gable-ended building is attached to the front of the vestry, containing a doorway on its inner side, and may represent an earlier privy.

The church is set within a forecourt enclosed by slate rubble walls with pitched slate capping. These walls include small monolithic granite gate-piers with rounded heads and a 19th-century wrought-iron gate.

Inside, the chapel has simple plastered walls and an open roof with scissor-braced trusses. Pine benches with rounded ends are in place, alongside a rostrum with cusped panels and an iron rail with wrought iron stanchions. The vestry is unaltered and contains an ornate cast-iron chimney-piece in the corner, with a slate tablet above inscribed "Methodist Chapel 1830". This inscription likely relates to a former chapel, now the Women's Institute Hall.