Chapel of St Saviour is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1987. Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Chapel of St Saviour
- WRENN ID
- half-steeple-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1987
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel of St Saviour, Grenville Road, Lostwithiel, PL22 0ER
- OS grid reference
- SX 109 597
- Coordinates
- 50.40699, -4.66189
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St Saviour is a chapel of ease built around 1880. It is constructed from snecked slatestone rubble with granite dressings, featuring a rock-faced granite plinth and quoins. The chapel has slate roofs adorned with crested ridge tiles, deep eaves, and a gabled nave with a lower roof over the chancel, which has hips over an apsidal east end. The structure consists of a nave and chancel, with a south porch and a north vestry, all designed in a Gothic style.
The nave has three bays and is set on a plinth with weathered buttresses. The west gable end features tall paired lancets with a quatrefoil above, a cill string, and a moulded string course that extends over the windows. To the left, there is a bell with a pitched roof. The south side of the nave includes three-light windows and deep eaves. The gabled south porch showcases granite banding in the masonry, a pointed arched doorway to the east with double doors that have strap hinges, paired cusped lancets to the south with a blind quatrefoil above, and a single cusped lancet to the west. A moulded string course runs over the heads of both the windows and the door.
Attached to the north side of the nave is a lean-to vestry, which has a single light to the west and a door with a shouldered head to the east. The chancel is a single bay with a canted apsidal east end, featuring a triple lancet to the south, a single lancet to the north, and one lancet on each of the three sides to the east.
Inside, there is a pointed arched doorway with double doors that have strap hinges leading from the porch to the nave. The nave and chancel have brick walls, with plain dado panelling in the nave. The nave boasts a four-bay arched-brace roof, with arched braces rising from corbels and upper collars with king-posts. The chancel has a tall four-centred arch with a hood mould, and its roof includes moulded ribs and a ridge purlin, along with a brattished wall-plate. The fittings include an altar rail supported by wrought iron piers.
Local climate
Chapel of St Saviour sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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