Metherell Baptist Church with Attached Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. Baptist church. 5 related planning applications.
Metherell Baptist Church with Attached Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- seventh-rubblework-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1987
- Type
- Baptist church
- Address
- Metherell Baptist Church with Attached Sunday School, PL17 8BJ
- OS grid reference
- SX 408 693
- Coordinates
- 50.50242, -4.2454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist church with an attached Sunday school, located in Metherell, was built in 1818. The Sunday school was likely added around the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of painted slatestone rubble, with a hipped slate roof.
The church has a single auditorium plan, with the main entrance on the front and the ritual east side towards the rear. The Sunday school is attached to the rear of the church.
On the front elevation, there are double doors with Gothic panels beneath a cambered arch on the right side. Above these doors is a central, round-arched sash window with 15 panes, featuring splayed glazing bars. The left side of the church has two large 12-pane sashes with segmental heads on the upper level, dating to the late 19th century. The right side has one similar sash, and a small 20th-century porch to the rear with double doors.
The attached Sunday school is lower, two-storey, and rendered. On its left side are three round-arched windows of the early 20th century.
The interior is not accessible, but features a gallery around the front and sides of the auditorium.
Local climate
Metherell Baptist Church with Attached Sunday School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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