Chygrysys

ALTARNUN ALTARNUN SX 28 SW 4/77 (9/5) Chygrysys (formerly listed as 22/11/60 Methodist Sunday School)

GV II

Wesleyan chapel, later Sunday School, now converted to private house. 1795, enlarged, altered, or rebuilt in 1836 (datestone). Stone rubble with granite dressings. Slate roof with hipped end to front. Plan: Overall rectangular plan. Originally with stables and store on ground floor and meeting room above, approached by an external flight of steps on the front elevation. Exterior: Two storey elevation to road with central stone rubble and granite flight of steps with iron balustrade, leading up to the entrance. The steps are set forward and there is a plank door to the store below them. C19 plank double doors to store and stable on left. The first floor has a central entrance with probably C19 double doors, flanked by two horned probably C19 36-pane sashes with some crown glass. The granite lintels above these windows have been continued to form a continuous granite string band below the eaves. Directly above the entrance is a carved relief of a bust of John Wesley dated 1836. This was carved by the local sculptor Nevil Northey Burnard whose birth place is commemorated by a plaque on the adjacent cottage (qv Penpont Mill). Interior altered when converted to house in the late C20. Stell, C. RCHM inventory of Methodist Chapels

Listing NGR: SX2239181223