Gweek Methodist Church Including Walls, Gate Piers And Gates At Road Front is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Church.
Gweek Methodist Church Including Walls, Gate Piers And Gates At Road Front
- WRENN ID
- outer-flagstone-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gweek Methodist Church, including the walls, gate piers, and gates at the road front, was built in 1887. The church is constructed of stucco and features a scantle slate roof with a coped gable end at the entrance, topped with clay ridge tiles, some of which have finials. The building has a rectangular shape, consisting of an aisle-less chapel above a schoolroom basement, with a choir area over a vestry projection at the rear.
Architecturally, the church is designed in a classical style and stands two storeys tall, with the chapel above the basement schoolroom. The symmetrical west gable front has three round-headed windows on the first floor and three square-headed windows on the ground floor. There is a plinth and a mid-floor band, and the original windows feature marginal panes. The larger central window has two round-headed lights with foiled tracery, while the lower windows include overlights. A name plaque is positioned at the centre of the gable. The side walls each have three windows per floor, similar to those at the front, but the upper windows have segmental heads. The three-light rear window has intersecting glazing.
Inside, the church retains all of its original features, including a segmental barrel ceiling with moulded plaster ribs and an ornate central rose. Other interior elements include a choir arch, a canted rostrum with turned baluster stairs, a communion rail supported by ornate cast-iron stanchions, pitch-pine pews with shaped ends, a sloping gallery at the west end, choir stalls, and a basement stair with stick balusters.
In front of the chapel, there is a low wall with dressed granite copings and ramps to accommodate the slope. Square granite monolithic piers flank a wide gateway on the right, rising above the three bays of the low walls. The entrance features iron railings and gates with scrolled details.
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