Mortuary Chapels is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Mortuary Chapels
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-step-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Mortuary Chapels, Trekenning Road, St. Columb Major, TR9 6TB
- OS grid reference
- SW 908 627
- Coordinates
- 50.427, -4.94543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The mortuary chapels, built around 1856, are a pair of Gothic-style structures located on Trekenning Road in St Columb Major. They are constructed from squared granite rubble with granite dressings and feature steeply pitched slate roofs adorned with crested ridge tiles and gable ends that have raised coped verges. Each chapel has a symmetrical single cell plan, with a gabled porch at the front and a ritual east at the rear.
The exterior of each chapel includes a granite plinth, weathered angle buttresses, and additional buttresses on the sides. The front features a gabled porch with a two-centred arched doorway, and the inner doorway also has a two-centred arch with a door that has raised fillets. Above the porch is a circular window with three quatrefoils in its tracery. Each side of the chapels has two bays separated by buttresses, with two lancet windows that have hood moulds, and some lattice glazing remains. The rear of each chapel has a three-light Perpendicular window with a two-centred arch and a hood mould.
Inside, the chapel on the right is simply plastered and has a four-bay arched-brace roof. The central truss of this roof rises from stone corbels and features both a collar and a king post.
Local climate
Mortuary Chapels receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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