Breage Methodist Church Including Courtyard Walls And Gate Piers

Breage Methodist Church, built around 1833, is a Methodist chapel located on Trewithick Road in Breage. The building features painted rubble construction with dressed granite quoins, sills, jambstones, and lintels, along with painted round-headed brick arches above the first-floor openings. It has a hipped asbestos slate roof and a rectangular plan without aisles, with an organ chamber added as a later projection at the middle of the rear. The chapel includes a gallery on all four sides and has a stable adjoining the rear right side.

The southeast front, which is the ritual west side, has a central flat-headed doorway with an original pair of flush-beaded six-panel doors. The two first-floor gallery windows are round-headed fixed lights with intersecting glazing bars. Each side wall features two ground-floor flat-headed windows and two round-headed first-floor windows, with 16-pane sash windows on the ground floor and sashes with distinctive glazing bars on the first floors. Some windows are original with crown glass, while others are reproductions.

Inside, the chapel retains its complete original gallery fitted with box pews, supported by wooden Tuscan columns that were originally marbled. The front of the gallery is panelled, ramping up from the ritual east end. The flat plaster ceiling features a fine central concentric circle rose with a central pendant. Fluted Corinthian pilasters flanking the organ chamber are likely from the late 19th century, as is the large bow-fronted pulpit adorned with blind arcading. On either side of the pulpit are winding stairs with turned newels and splat balusters.

At the front of the chapel, there is a low granite ashlar wall with three entrances, each marked by round-headed granite monolith gate piers. The original iron railings have been replaced with pierced concrete blocks. This chapel is exceptionally well-preserved, with a complete gallery and minimal alterations since the 19th century.