Former Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School)

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SW 95 SW 1530/3/10002

ST STEPHEN IN BRANNEL ST STEPHENS FORE STREET No 65, St Stephen Pharmacy Former Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School)

(Formerly listed as Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School))

GV II Former Nonconformist chapel and attached school. 1870 datestone, re-fitted 1890s. St Stephens granite brought to course and with granite dressings; state roof. Rectangular aisleless plan with end gallery over entrance plus choir gallery at ritual east end plus organ within apse, now within later C19 schoolroom added at rear. Single-storey elevations; three bay entrance front with semi-circular arched openings including window over central doorway and tatter flanking windows. The windows, and fanlight over doors, have Y tracery and margin glazing; V-jointed boards to pair of doors. later windows to original openings to side elevations.

INTERIOR; has moulded ceiling cornices and ornate ceiling rose, the walls plastered and blocked out to resemble ashlar. Window openings have segmental pediments over pilasters. Pilastered and panelled gallery front has cast-iron inserts to panels and dentilled cornice above. The gallery has quadrant corners; its otherwise straight front stands on a moulded cornice and this is cantilevered out on brackets all supported by two slender near Ionic columns. There is a panelled screen to the entrance and stair hall. At the other end of the chapel is a choir gallery with similar detail to its flat front. The organ apse has a moulded eliptical arch and carved spandrels.

FITTINGS; of note include pilastered and balustraded three-bay stepped rostrum with quadrant corners to the articulated front; communion rail in front of rostrum; three bay piped organ and pitch-pine pews with shaped ends.

There are a number of similar classical-style chapels which date up to the 1870s in Restormel District, but this is one of the best examples.

Listing NGR: SW9440953477