Wesley Centenary Memorial Hall

REDRUTH WESLEY STREET SW 74 SW (south side) 11/317 Wesley Centenary Memorial Hall GV II Meeting hall, now offices (etc). Dated 1891 above door. Granite ashlar with rock-faced quoins, slate roof. Double-depth plan, with rear wing. Two storeys and 3 bays, in free classical style; symmetrical, with open-pedimented centre; rock-faced plinth, rusticated rock-faced quoins and banded rock-faced pilasters to the centre, prominent string course and 1st floor sill-band; the wide and slightly projected centre forms a porch at ground floor, with 2 Tuscan columns in antis flanking a flight of 5 steps up to a large round-headed doorway with moulded imposts and keystone and double doors under a fanlight with stained glass; the pilasters are interrupted by a plain entablature to the columns and by the band, which is inscribed:- "WESLEY CENTENARY MEMORIAL 1891" and above this the 1st floor has a large Venetian window, the head rising into the pediment (which has unorthodox corbels to the eaves, and an apex finial). The windows of the outer bays are rectangular at ground floor and round-headed above. Gable chimneys, and red cockscomb ridge tiles. Sides, rear, and interior are of less interest. Listed for group value with Redruth Methodist Church (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SW7014342100