Wesleyan Chapel And Attached Schoolrooms

This is a Wesleyan chapel with attached schoolrooms, built in 1827. Schoolrooms were likely added in the mid-19th century, and the chapel was refitted and refenestrated around 1900, probably by Sylvanus Trevail. The front is constructed of Pentewen stone ashlar, while the rest of the building is killas rubble with Pentewen stone dressings. The roofs are dry Delabole slate, with two parallel roofs for the schoolrooms, featuring clerestories with vertical glazing bars and random panes, some of which open. Brick stacks are located on the right-hand gable ends of the schoolrooms.

The chapel has a rectangular, aisle-less plan and features a gallery with quadrant corners. The lower rear gallery incorporates an organ loft over a vestry, which is now enclosed by the schoolrooms to the rear. The exterior displays two-storey elevations with original round-arched openings. The symmetrical front has a three-window arrangement, a plinth, a mid-floor string, and a triangular pediment with a moulded cornice and central date panel with a moulded hood. A central doorway is topped by a distyle Tuscan porch and a pair of doors, flanked by two-light windows with wheel-head tracery. The side elevations also have three windows with a similar design. The single-storey schoolrooms have two original 12-pane hornless sash windows on each elevation.

Inside, original plaster ceiling cornices and an elaborate central rose with acanthus leaves remain. The gallery construction includes a panelled front supported on scrolled wrought-iron brackets linked to wooden Tuscan columns. A wide, pilastered, elliptically-arched opening leads to the apse, now enclosed by the schoolrooms, with carved trailing decoration on the pilasters and a moulded arch inscribed "PRAISE GOD IN HIS SANCTUARY." The fittings, dating from circa 1900, are made of pitch pine. The rostrum features a two-tier arcade of cusped arches and a canted center, while the straight-flight staircases have turned balustrades. The main L-plan staircases are located on either side of the entrance, which is separated from the auditorium by a panelled screen with diagonal V-jointed boards. Pews have shaped ends and vertical V-jointed boards. The organ has a stepped case with panels containing painted and gilded pipes.

The chapel is notable as one of the earliest galleried chapels in Cornwall. While later fittings are present, they represent good examples of their kind. The unique design of the schoolrooms and the chapel's location within the largely unspoiled china clay and fishing port contribute to its overall interest.