Tabernacle (New Life Christian Centre), Forecourt Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1994. Chapel, hall.
Tabernacle (New Life Christian Centre), Forecourt Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
- over-corbel-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1994
- Type
- Chapel, hall
- Address
- Tabernacle (New Life Christian Centre), Forecourt Walls and Railings, New Street, Penryn
- OS grid reference
- SW 785 344
- Coordinates
- 50.16828, -5.10167
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tabernacle, now known as the New Life Christian Centre, is a Congregational chapel built in 1805 on the site of a former house. It features a granite ashlar front and a hipped grouted scantle slate roof, with a rectangular aisle-less plan in a classical style. The building has a two-storey, three-bay front with three windows. There are round arches above the mid-floor sashes, which have glazing bars, and a central first-floor fixed light, all with margin panes. The entrance includes an elliptically-arched doorway with an original pair of three-panel doors, of which the top four panels have been later glazed. The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be of interest. The forecourt includes a low elvan-coped elvan ashlar wall with wrought iron railings, contributing to the character of the 18th-century street.
Local climate
Tabernacle (New Life Christian Centre), Forecourt Walls and Railings receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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