Methodist Church Of St George And Attached Railings

TRURO

SW8244NW ST GEORGE'S ROAD 880-1/6/281 (North side) 21/03/89 Methodist Church of St George and attached railings

GV II

Methodist Church. 1881. At the instigation of Joe Cockin. Squared snecked grey walling with yellow stone dressings, back gable and east wall rendered; Cornish slate roof. Lofty main hall with undercroft using fall in site; at entrance end lateral porticos with roof taken above eaves of main hall; front gable flanked by turrets. Gothic Revival with Free style influences. Front gable is 3 storeys. Lowest level has flat buttresses articulating pattern of 1:2:2:1 plate-tracery transomed lancets in pointed outer and segmental central arches set beneath row of deep-set 2:5:2 lancets under lintel with stone consoles. Main central 4-light window with Geometrical tracery, flanked by single lancets; drip course carried out horizontally from springing of main arch to turrets. In peak of gable 3 small louvred lancets. Left and right are buttresses carried up as flat-capped turrets above modelled gablets. To each side a set-back portico with glazed doors pointed with dog-tooth, below a row of 5 lancets; outer return gables each have simple rose window over triple lancet. To right of right portico a lower gabled unit, set back, with 3 openings to shouldered heads under small triple lancet. Porticos approached by flight of granite steps; steps also from street to basement level. Left side wall has 4 two-light plate-tracery windows above 3 two-light windows with glazing bars; outer end has rendered gable with 2 two-light openings at two levels below a blind 3-light window with oculi in pointed arch; vent to gable; rendered flank to south-east similar to opposite side but windows blocked. Adjacent gabled building not of special interest. Across front is low wall with square piers, those to gates to steps with cross-saddle cappings, and good decorative cast-iron gates and railings in series of square panels containing embellished quatrefoils. INTERIOR not inspected, but understood to be furnished as original. The building is one of the few remaining Methodist chapels in Truro, and complements the Anglican Church of St George (qv) on the opposite side of the road.

Listing NGR: SW8213544958