Church Of St Mary Clement

The Church of St Mary Clement is a large Wesleyan chapel with an adjoining schoolroom, located on Union Place in Truro. Datestones indicate that the chapel was built in 1830 and the schoolroom in 1868. The building underwent modernization by Silvanus Trevail in 1885, during which most of the interior fittings and windows were added.

Architecturally, the chapel is designed in the Classical style and is two storeys high. The western front features granite, while the rest of the building is constructed of rubble with granite dressings, topped with a Delabole slate roof. It has a rectangular aisleless plan with galleries on all sides. The symmetrical entrance front consists of three bays, with a moulded triangular pediment and a central oculus above quoin pilasters and pairs of pilasters between the bays. The first floor has three round-arched windows with glazing bars and spoked fanlight heads. The central doorway is flanked by free-standing Doric columns and has tapered flanking doorways with eared architraves, though the doors are from the 20th century. The side walls contain later 19th-century windows featuring coloured memorial glass.

Inside, the chapel has a panelled plaster ceiling with moulded ribs. The fittings, all dating from the 1884/5 renovation, include pitch pine benches with galleries, columns supporting the galleries, a large mahogany rostrum, and an altar rail.