Helstone Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1962. Chapel.

Helstone Methodist Church

WRENN ID
odd-ledge-merlin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1962
Type
Chapel
Address
Helstone Methodist Church, Camelford
OS grid reference
SX 089 813
Coordinates
50.60068, -4.70154
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Helstone Methodist Church is a small Methodist chapel built as a Wesleyan Meeting House in 1826, as indicated by a datestone. The building is constructed from stone rubble with granite quoins and features a slate roof with hipped ends. It has a rectangular plan with the entrance located at the higher right-hand end. A late 20th-century porch has been added as a lean-to extension on this side.

The front elevation is symmetrical with two windows facing the road and the entrance on the right side. There is a late 20th-century lean-to extension with a slate roof and a 19th-century six-panel door leading to the original entrance. Above the entrance is a lunette tablet dated 1826. The front has two window openings with two-centred dressed stone arches, which contain late 19th-century horned sashes featuring intersecting glazing bars. The lower lights of these windows were replaced with obscured glass in the late 20th century. The rear elevation has two similar window openings with brick dressings and early 20th-century sashes with intersecting glazing bars. The lower left side wall has two two-centred arched openings for windows that also have intersecting glazing bars and crown glass.

Inside, the chapel features simple pitch pine pews and a rostrum with a moulded cornice and fluted pilasters, which have replaced the original fittings.

Local climate

Helstone Methodist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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