Troon Methodist Church

CAMBORNE NEWTON ROAD SW 63 NE (west side) 8/71 Troon Troon Methodist Church II

Wesleyan Methodist chapeL Dated 1863 in gable. Snecked killas rubble with granite quoins and dressings, rubble sides and rear, slate roof. Rectangular plan, 3x3 bays, gable to road. Two storeys; the gabled 3-bay facade is symmetrical, and has a wide basket-arched doorway in the centre with quoined jambs and stepped ashlar voussoirs, panelled double doors and fanlight with 2 raked glazing bars; tall round-headed windows on each side and a shorter one over the door, all with quoined jambs and ashlar voussoirs (and stained glass); and a hollow-moulded cornice to the gable, which is treated as a pediment and contains a moulded roundel with raised lettering:- WESLEY 1863 CHAPEL The 3-bay side walls have square-headed windows at ground floor, round- headed above. Interior: horseshoe gallery carried on a beam supported by cast-iron Tuscan columns with coupled brackets to the projected front, which is panelled and has consoles and modillions to the top rail, and a clock in the centre of the east end (facing the pulpit); original benches in the gallery, in a style reminiscent of the C18, with high plain-panelled backs and ramped partitions; large and elaborate moulded plaster ceiling rose; balustraded rostrum with bow-fronted panelled pulpit; apse flanked by splayed Corinthian pilasters and now filled by organ. A good example of its type and date, and now the only one in Troon, a second having been demolished.

Listing NGR: SW6612038230