Former Chapel of Ease

The Former Chapel of Ease, now residential, was built in 1828 by Charles Hutchens. It features dressed granite and granite ashlar dressings, with a corrugated asbestos sheet roof and stone coping on the gable ends. The building is rectangular in shape, with a small porch at the east entrance and a turret at the west end. Designed in the Commissioners' Gothic style, the west end has an advanced center that rises above the gable, adorned with battlements and a three-light four-centred arch window with cusped tracery. Below this window is a small gabled stone porch with a pointed arch window and a side doorway, flanked by diagonal buttresses at the corners that have set-offs and pinnacles. The turret at the west end projects and originally housed a bellcote, which is now missing. It features a pointed arch panel with a trefoiled oculus and flanking pointed arch windows with cusped wooden tracery. Both the north and south sides have four pointed arch windows with wooden frames and cusped tracery, along with chamfered square-headed windows below. The interior has been much altered. The Chapel of Ease was constructed to serve the growing mining population, as the parish church was located outside of Redruth.