Stithians Methodist Church (Formerly Penmennor Methodist Church)

This is a late 19th-century Methodist church, formerly known as Penmennor Methodist Church, built in 1865. It is constructed primarily of granite rubble, with a faced granite entrance front featuring rock-faced granite ashlar to the basement, plinth and rusticated granite dressings. The roof is of Dry Delabole slate with a pedimented gable to the front.

The church has a rectangular, aisle-less plan, with a canted vestry and organ loft projecting from the rear. An entrance hall and a pair of gallery stairs are located at the front, and there is a gallery on all four sides. A schoolroom occupies the basement, and a small chapel was added around 1900 over the former trap house and stable on the right side.

The symmetrical three-window north (ritual west) front has a triangular pediment bearing name and date plaques. A wide, elliptically-arched doorway, rusticated and with original four-panel doors and elliptical fanlight, is flanked by granite steps with original iron balustrades. Segmental arches top the ground floor windows, while round arches feature above the first-floor (gallery) windows. Original windows are present throughout: fixed nine-pane lights to the front ground floor, hornless sashes with fanlight heads to the front first floor, and 12-pane horned sashes to the sides and rear.

The interior retains its original layout, including galleries on four sides. The pews are original box pews, the front gallery being supported by shaped brackets over Tuscan columns. A bowed rostrum is present, alongside moulded ceiling cornices and an ornate domed central rose. The schoolroom retains an original rostrum, and the rooms beneath the organ loft (a small meeting room and vestry) are unaltered.