Dowty'S

Dowty's is a Nonconformist (Primitive Methodist) chapel, built in 1878, which later became the City Mission and is now used as a shop. The building is constructed of dressed granite brought to course and features steep Delabole slate roofs with a coped gable at the front. It has a rectangular single-vessel plan and is designed in the Gothic style. The symmetrical south entrance front includes a central tall buttressed gable end flanked by lean-tos that resemble aisles with splayed corners. There is a shallow central gabled porch with a pointed-arched doorway, flanked by lancet windows, a moulded string, a rose window above the porch, and three stepped lights in the gable. The buttresses are topped with tall pinnacles. The side walls are illuminated by tall lancets, while the main lighting comes from long wooden clerestorey windows with pointed-arched lights. Inside, the chapel features an arch-braced roof structure with laminated braces, and the clerestorey windows are carried over the roof structure.