Dowty'S is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1993. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Dowty'S
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-pedestal-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1993
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TRURO
SW8244NW KENWYN STREET 880-1/6/111 (North side) Dowty's
GV II
Nonconformist (Primitive Methodist) chapel, later the City Mission, now used as a shop. 1878. Dressed granite brought to course. Steep Delabole slate roofs with coped gable at the front. Main roof and lean-to roofs over same timber structure. Rectangular single-vessel plan. Gothic style. Symmetrical south entrance front has central tall buttressed gable end flanked by lean-tos resembling aisles with splayed corners. Shallow central gabled porch with pointed-arched doorway; flanking lancets, moulded string, rose window over porch and 3 stepped lights to gable. Buttresses are surmounted by tall pinnacles. Side walls are lit by tall lancets, main lighting is from long wooden clerestorey windows with pointed-arched lights. INTERIOR: Arch-braced roof structure with laminated braces. Clerestorey windows carried over roof structure. (The Truro Buildings Research Group: River Street and its Neighbourhood).
Listing NGR: SW8243144829
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