Tregona Chapel Including Forecourt Area Wall and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1988. Chapel.
Tregona Chapel Including Forecourt Area Wall and Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- worn-transept-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1988
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Tregona Chapel Including Forecourt Area Wall and Gate Piers, St. Eval
- OS grid reference
- SW 858 698
- Coordinates
- 50.48929, -5.02053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tregona Chapel, a former United Methodist Chapel, was opened in 1838. It features unplastered cob walls set on a slate rubble plinth. The cob walls on the west front and south side are covered with large rag slates. The building has a low-pitched asbestos slate hipped roof with red clay ridge tiles. It has a small rectangular plan and is a single-cell chapel with the entrance located at the shorter west end and a rostrum at the opposite east end.
The chapel is a single storey with a blind west front that includes a central doorway fitted with a 20th-century plank door and a small, late 19th-century gabled open-fronted shallow red brick porch. The tympanum of the porch gable is faced with a large piece of slate and features shaped barge-boards. Inside the porch, on the left side, there is a simple wooden notice board. The south side of the chapel has two large late 19th-century sash windows with margin panes and slate cills, while the north side has two large original 24-pane sashes, also with slate cills. The east end is blind.
The forecourt walls at the west end, likely from the later 19th century, are made of slate rubble with slate rubble saddle-back capping. The forecourt tapers towards the outer end, where there is a gateway with two small granite monolithic gate-posts topped with pyramids; the gate itself is missing. A nicely cobbled path leads from the gateway to the chapel entrance.
Inside, the chapel has a simple layout without a gallery, featuring plain plastered walls and a flat ceiling from which six gas lights are suspended. The original box-pews remain, complete with panelled fronts and shaped ends, along with a leader's pew in front. The later 19th-century rostrum at the east end has chamfered balusters.
Local climate
Tregona Chapel Including Forecourt Area Wall and Gate Piers sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% 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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