Former Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1999. Church. 1 related planning application.
Former Church of St Stephen (Methodist Church and attached Sunday School)
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1999
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former Nonconformist chapel and attached Sunday school, dating to 1870, with re-fitting work carried out in the 1890s. Constructed of granite brought to course, with granite dressings and a slate roof, the building has a rectangular, aisleless plan. It features an end gallery over the entrance, a choir gallery at the ritual east end, and an organ within a now-enclosed apse, which is incorporated into the later 19th-century schoolroom added at the rear.
The single-story elevations present a three-bay front, containing semi-circular arched openings, including a window over the central doorway and flanking tatter windows. These windows, along with the fanlight over the doors, have Y tracery and margin glazing, and the doors have V-jointed boards. Later windows replace the original openings on the side elevations.
The interior features moulded ceiling cornices and an ornate ceiling rose, with plastered walls designed to resemble ashlar. Window openings are framed by segmental pediments over pilasters. A pilastered and panelled gallery front incorporates cast-iron inserts within the panels, topped with a dentil cornice. The gallery features quadrant corners, a straight front, and stands on a moulded cornice that is cantilevered out on brackets and supported by two slender, near Ionic columns. A panelled screen defines the entrance and stair hall. At the opposite end of the chapel is a choir gallery with similar detailing to its flat front. The organ apse is distinguished by a moulded elliptical arch and carved spandrels.
Significant fittings include a pilastered and balustraded, three-bay stepped rostrum with quadrant corners to the articulated front; a communion rail in front of it; a three-bay pipe organ; and pitch-pine pews with shaped ends.
This chapel is considered one of the best examples of similar classical-style chapels found in the Restormel District, dating up to the 1870s. It retains stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.
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