Claremont Methodist Church With Attached Church Hall

NEWQUAY BEACHFIELD AVENUE, Newquay SW 8061-8161 16/112 Claremont Methodist Church with - attached church hall II

Methodist church with attached church hall. Church dated 1895 on foundation stone, the church hall dated 1900. Squared stone rubble with granite dressings, and rock- faced granite quoins. Slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. Plan: Three parallel ranges with gable ends to the road; the church to the left has a single auditorium plan, with entrance at the front gable end and ritual east to rear. Church hall attached at the right side attached by a linking corridor. Gothic style, loosely Early English. Exterior: The church has the central bay of the front gable end broken forward with pilasters surmounted by corbelled pyramidal pinnacles with finials. Central double doors with Gothic panelling and fanlight, gabled hood with continuous hood mould. Bandcourse with blank cusped panels above and quatrefoil in the gable set in a roundel. Right and left of the centre bay a single pointed arched light with hood mould. Corridor at the right side with double doors, linking the church to the church hall. This is 2-storey, with gable end front with 4 single shouldered arched lights at ground floor and datestone set in a gable over the band course. First floor has triple window with central paired trefoil-headed lights and plate tracery; single light to each side, continuous hood mould with frieze of trefoils over. Raised coped verges to the gable and rusticated quoins. The left side of the church has 2 pointed arched windows and a wing to left with single pointed arched light and hipped roof. Interior: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW8097261682