Miners And Mechanics Institute, Including Boundary Walls, Gate-Piers And Railings

ST AGNES VICARAGE ROAD (west side), SW 75 SW 4/244 Miners and Mechanics Institute, including boundary walls,gate-piers - and railings GV II

Institute, including boundary walls, gate-piers and railings. Datestone 1893. Built by J. Passmore Edwards (patron) to a design by W.J. Wills. Killas brought to course granite dressings. Dry Delabole slate gabled roofs. Brick chimneys over the gable ends at left and right. Cast-iron ogee-section gutters. Plan: 2 principal rooms flanking a central entrance hall and subsidiary rooms behind. Exterior: Single storey. Symmetrical l:l:l-bay front with each gabled bay broken forward from the overall wall plane. Central bay has round-headed doorway with hoodmould. Coped gable over moulded cornice is flanked by pinnacles and surmounted by a shaped finial. Within the gable is a shallow shaped niche with the initials J.P.E. and date 1893. Original panelled doors and fanlight with coloured glass and clock to the middle. Flanking bays have coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials; the stepped tripartite mullioned windows have round-headed central lights and transoms. Original small-paned windows; the upper lights have marginal panes. Interior not inspected. Garden in front of the institute is flanked by rubble coped rubble walls and fronted by low rubble walls with rock-faced granite copings surmounted by the original ornate cast-iron railings. Square-on-plan rock faced granite gate-piers and terminal piers with pyramdial caps. This institute is one of 4 institutes in Cornwall donated by J. Passmore Edwards. Source: R.S. Best, John Passmore Edwards.

Listing NGR: SW7201850480