Goonhavern Methodist Church, with Forecourt Walls Gate and Adjoining Schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1988. Chapel.
Goonhavern Methodist Church, with Forecourt Walls Gate and Adjoining Schoolroom
- WRENN ID
- sharp-beam-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- OS grid reference
- SW 788 537
- Coordinates
- 50.34239, -5.10889
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Goonhavern Methodist Church, along with its forecourt walls, gate, and adjoining schoolroom, is a Nonconformist chapel built in the late 19th century, with the schoolroom dating from the early 19th century. The building features walls made of killas rubble with brick dressings and an asbestos slate roof topped with a pedimented gable at the entrance front.
The chapel has a rectangular aisle-less plan, likely with galleries on three sides. The schoolroom is attached at the rear, and there is a small room at the far back that was probably a former vestry, now used as a funeral directors. The schoolroom may have originally served as the chapel.
The exterior remains unaltered, showcasing two-storey elevations for the chapel and a single-storey schoolroom. The symmetrical entrance front on the southwest has three windows and a central round-arched doorway. It features plinth impost strings that continue as a hoodmould over the first-floor windows, a cogged upper cornice leading to a triangular pediment, and a stepped lower cornice. The round-headed window openings contain original doors and windows, including a traceried tympanum above a pair of V-jointed, boarded doors and horned sashes with glazing bars and fanlight heads, with three similar windows on each side wall. The schoolroom has a three-window front on the northwest with a doorway on the left, featuring original elements like a four-panel door and 16-pane hornless sashes. The roadside has cement-coped rubble walls adjoining the left-hand side of the entrance front, along with original braced iron gates.
Inside, the unaltered interior includes a gallery with a panelled front, moulded plaster ceiling cornices, and an elaborate central ceiling rose adorned with acanthus detail.
Local climate
Goonhavern Methodist Church, with Forecourt Walls Gate and Adjoining Schoolroom receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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