Penryn Methodist Church, Schoolroom And Attached Forecourt Walls

Penryn Methodist Church, Schoolroom, and attached forecourt walls is a Nonconformist chapel built in 1891 by builder J W Trounson and stonework by John Freemand & Co. The church features a dressed granite front with a rockfaced ashlar plinth, some granite ashlar and dressings, rock-faced granite brought to course, and some red granite. The dressings include carved imposts, round arches, and moulded strings, while the rest is granite rubble with granite dressings and round brick arches, except for the schoolroom which has granite lintels. The roofs are covered with dry slate and scantle slate, and there are cast-iron ogee gutters and a brick stack on the left of the schoolroom.

The building has a rectangular aisle-less plan with galleries, a vestry at the rear, and a schoolroom at the rear left, all designed in the Italianate style. The two-storey elevations have a 1:1:1-bay front end with a central coped gable flanked by moulded parapets that front lean-to roofs. The windows are leaded glazed with colored, likely memorial, glass, featuring paired windows with polished nook shafts and mullions, except for a similarly detailed stepped three-light central window above a pair of wide gabled doorways with moulded round arches fronting a loggia. The jambs of the doorways are similar to the window openings. The inner doorways have pairs of six-panel doors and similar return doors to the stairs, all with two-pane fanlights. The five-bay side elevations have original horned sashes with margin panes and fanlight heads, and the schoolroom retains its original doors and windows.

The interior has not been inspected but is likely to be complete, featuring stained glass by Messrs Fouracre & Co of Stonehouse and a plaster ceiling by Messrs Jackson & Son of London. The forecourt walls are made of granite rubble with chamfered granite copings topped with twist wrought-iron bars to otherwise plain railings. There is a central gateway with square-on-plan granite gate-piers with moulded caps.