Gwennap Pit is a Grade II* listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. Meeting place.
Gwennap Pit
- WRENN ID
- peeling-clay-river
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Type
- Meeting place
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST DAY BUSVEAL SW 74 SW 6/335 Gwennap Pit GV II* Methodist open air meeting place. 1762, remodelled in 1806. Conical pit made in fallen-in mine shaft which was used by John Wesley for preaching in 1762, and remodelled and reduced in size in 1806, to 360 feet circumference and 16 feet depth, with 13 circles of tufted seating faced with random rubble. On the west side a flight of segmental steps is built into the terraces, and to the north round the 4th step down is a pair of stone posts with a rectangular boulder between them (probably the "pulpit"). Used for Whit Monday services annually from 1807 to 1966. Reference: Thomas Shaw A History of Cornish Methodism (1967).
Listing NGR: SW7171741761
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