Helstone Methodist Church

CAMELFORD HELSTONE SX 08 SE 4/52 Helstone Methodist Church - (previously listed as Noncomformist 17.12.62 Chapel, Helstone) GV II

Small Methodist Chapel, built as a Wesleyan Meeting House. 1826 (datestone). Stone rubble with granite quoins. Slate roof with hipped ends. Plan: Rectangular plan with entrance in higher right hand end. Late C20 porch added in lean-to extension on right hand end. Symmetrical 2-window front to road with entrance in right hand side; C20 lean-to extension with slate lean-to roof and C19 6-panel door to original entrance within. Lunette tablet above dated 1826. Front elevation has two 2-centred dressed stone arches to window openings; late C19 horned sashes with intersecting glazing bars and the glass to the lower lights replaced with obscured glass in the late C20. 2 similar window openings on rear elevation with brick dressings and early C20 sashes with intersecting glazing bars. The lower left hand side wall has two 2-centred arched openings to the windows which have intersecting glazing bars and crown glass. Interior : Simple pitch pine pews and rostrum with moulded cornice and fluted pilasters replacing original fittings. Stell, C. RCHM unpublished inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels Shaw, T. Methodism in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit, 1743-1963 1963

Listing NGR: SX0891881370