Former Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1994. Non-conformist chapel. 1 related planning application.
Former Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- rough-plaster-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1994
- Type
- Non-conformist chapel
- Address
- Former Baptist Church, Wendron Street, Helston, TR13 8PT
- OS grid reference
- SW 660 274
- Coordinates
- 50.10124, -5.27316
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A former Baptist church, now commercial premises, was built in 1836 by Philip Sambell. It is constructed of elvan ashlar with granite dressings, with a visible coped front gable. The ground floor is partially hidden by a 20th-century extension, and the roof is not visible. The building has a rectangular, aisleless plan and is executed in the Norman Revival style.
The façade presents a symmetrical 5-bay, 3-window design to the first floor. The windows are 2-light casements with 2-pane fanlights. Alternate windows are blind and set within ordered arches with engaged columns and window aprons featuring an arcade of five round arches. There is an impost string and a string below the 3-bay gable. The central bay of the gable features deeply recessed rose windows with roll-moulded architraves, set beneath a stepped gable with a pseudo-machicolation and a central octagonal finial. Flanking these rose windows are recessed panels with nook-shafts.
The interior was inaccessible at the time of survey.
The robust architecture contributes significantly to the street’s character. It is a notable example of non-conformist chapel architecture of the period, closely resembling the chapel on Clarence Street, Penzance, also designed by Sambell. Philip Sambell was a noteworthy Cornish architect whose other works include the Lander column and commissions in Truro.
Local climate
Former Baptist Church receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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