Goonhavern Methodist Church, With Forecourt Walls Gate And Adjoining Schoolroom

PERRANZABULOE GOONHAVERN SW 75 SE 5/69 Goonhavern Methodist Church, with forecourt walls gate and adjoining schoolroom - GV II

Nonconformist chapel, forecourt walls and gate and adjoining school room. Circa early C19 schoolroom. Circa late C19 chapel. Killas rubble walls with brick dressings. Asbestos slate roof with pedimented gable at the entrance front. Plan: Rectangular aisle-less plan probably with galleries on 3 sides. Schoolroom adjoining at rear and small room probably a former vestry (now used as a funeral directors) at far rear. Schoolroom is possibly the original chapel. Exterior: Unaltered 2-storey elevations (chapel) and single-storey schoolroom. Symmetrical 3-window south-west pedimented entrance front with central round-arched doorway. Plinth impost strings (string continues as hoodmould over first-floor windows). Cogged upper cornice to triangular pediment, stepped lower cornice. Round-headed window openings. Original doors and windows. Traceried tympanum over pair of V-jointed, boarded doors. Horned sashes with glazing bars and fanlight heads (3 similar windows to each side wall). Schoolroom has 3-window north-west front with doorway on its left. Original door and windows; 4-panel door, 16-pane hornless sashes. Cement coped rubble walls at roadside adjoining front left-hand side of entrance front. Original braced iron gates. Interior: Unaltered interior has gallery with panelled front, moulded plaster ceiling cornices and an elaborate central ceiling rose with acanthus detail.

Listing NGR: SW7889553788