Penryn Methodist Church, Schoolroom And Attached Forecourt Walls

PENRYN

SW7834SW THE TERRACE 580-1/5/186 Penryn Methodist Church, Schoolroom and attached forecourt walls

GV II

Nonconformist chapel. Datestone 1891 by J W Trounson, builder Carkeek; stonework John Freemand & Co. Dressed granite front with rockfaced ashlar plinth, some granite ashlar and dressings; rock-faced granite brought to course and some red granite, dressings including carved imposts, round arches and moulded strings, otherwise granite rubble with granite dressings and round brick arches except schoolroom with granite lintels; dry slate and scantle slate roofs; cast-iron ogee gutters; brick stack on left of schoolroom. Rectangular aisle-less plan with galleries plus vestry at rear and schoolroom at rear left. Italianate style. 2-storey elevations; 1:1:1-bay front end with central coped gable flanked by moulded parapets fronting lean-to roofs. Leaded glazed windows with coloured, probably memorial, glass; paired windows with polished nook shafts and mullions except for similarly detailed stepped 3-light central window over pair of wide gabled doorways with moulded round arches fronting loggia; jambs similar to window openings. Inner doorways with pairs of 6-panel doors and similar return doors to stairs, all with 2-pane fanlights. 5-bay side elevations with original horned sashes with margin panes and fanlight heads. Schoolroom has original doors and windows. INTERIOR not inspected but likely to be complete: stained glass by Messrs Fouracre & Co of Stonehouse; plaster ceiling by Messrs Jackson & Son of London. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: granite rubble forecourt walls with chamfered granite copings surmounted by twist wrought-iron bars to otherwise plain railings. Central gateway with square-on-plan granite gate-piers with moulded caps. (Roddis R J: Penryn, The History of an Ancient Cornish Borough: Penryn: 1964-: 154, 155).

Listing NGR: SW7841834401