Millbrook Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Place of worship. 3 related planning applications.
Millbrook Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- gentle-lead-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Place of worship
- Address
- Millbrook Methodist Church, New Street, PL10 1BY
- OS grid reference
- SX 423 521
- Coordinates
- 50.34848, -4.21725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Millbrook Methodist Church is a Methodist church built in 1873. It features limestone rubble construction with a rendered front and a slate roof adorned with crested ridged tiles. The building includes an auditorium with a two-storey porch at the front, where the entrance is located beneath the gallery. The auditorium has an apsidal end for the organ chamber, with a single-storey vestry and boiler room situated at the rear. There are 20th-century schoolrooms attached to the rear right.
The front of the church has a porch set on a plinth, featuring a round-arched doorway with double doors, flanked by fanlights and single lights on either side, all topped with a moulded string course. Above this, there is a pedimental string course supported by corbels. On the first floor, a cill band course runs beneath three round-arched lights with margin glazing, and above them is a circular inscription plaque that reads "Wesley 1873 John Waterman, Thomas Jasper." A segmental pediment rests on corbels above this section. The auditorium has one bay on both the right and left sides, with ground floor windows featuring margin-glazed sashes and fanlights, decorated with stylised plaster anthems and moulded string. The first floor has a band course that supports fluted pilasters, with round-headed margin-glazed sashes topped by moulded pedimental gables, and a central die surmounted by an urn with a ball finial.
The right and left sides of the building have four tall round-headed margin-glazed sashes, along with two additional sashes at a lower level. The left side features an attached two-storey block with a hipped roof, rendered front, round-arched doorway with a 20th-century door and fanlight, moulded string, cornice, and blocking course. The rear includes an apse and small single-storey blocks for the vestry and boilerhouse on both sides, with a circular opening in the upper gable end that has a pierced wooden ventilation louvre.
Inside, the auditorium contains a gallery at the entrance end, supported by cast iron panels and piers. The rostrum has stairs on both sides with cast iron balustrades, and a central reading desk set on fluted wooden columns, also featuring cast iron panels similar to those in the gallery. The communion rail is designed with a cast iron balustrade. The auditorium and gallery are furnished with wooden pews.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2024
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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