Baldhu Methodist Church and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1999. Church, school.

Baldhu Methodist Church and Sunday School

WRENN ID
final-buttress-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 April 1999
Type
Church, school
Address
Baldhu Methodist Church and Sunday School, Kea
OS grid reference
SW 778 426
Coordinates
50.24172, -5.11697
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Baldhu Methodist Church and Sunday School comprises an early 19th-century chapel and a later Sunday school building, with an inscription of 1889 marking the present chapel. The original chapel is constructed of slurried rubble with scantle slate hipped roofs, red clay ridge and hip tiles, cast-iron ogee gutters, and downpipes. The 1889 chapel is built of roughly-coursed killas rubble with granite dressings, painted rubble to the sides and rear, and a scantle slate roof with red clay alternate crested ridge tiles. The front gable features moulded coping and kneelers.

The original chapel is rectangular with a porch at the front and an apparently integral or slightly later schoolroom alongside on its left. Alternatively, the front portion may have been the chapel with a schoolroom or vestry behind. The 1889 chapel has a small, rectangular, aisleless plan; its right-hand corner adjoins the rear left-hand corner of the schoolroom. The 1889 chapel features round-arched openings and a symmetrical two-window front, with a date and name plaque above a rose window with quatrefoil glazing. The doorway has a Y-traceried fanlight with leaded glazing over a panelled door, and tall two-light windows with Y-traceried heads are on either side. The side elevations also have similar windows.

The original chapel retains three original 16-pane hornless sash windows with segmental brick arches to its right-hand side, alongside a lean-to trap house. A hipped porch contains a window to the left and a blocked doorway to the right, with an original tall 24-pane sash to its left return. The left-hand return has an original sash with glazing bars, with a heightened sill to accommodate a later 19th-century panelled door, and a hornless four-pane sash on the right.

The interior of the present chapel retains its original fittings. The original chapel and schoolroom are separated by a three-bay colonnade, featuring iron stanchions, with an inner bay divided by a wooden screen. A staging is located at the left-hand end, and a rostrum sits in front of it. The 1889 chapel preserves pews and a rostrum with decorative railing to a low partition across the front of the choir area, along with a 1925 organ. The complex demonstrates an evolution from a vernacular Cornish wayside chapel.

Local climate

Baldhu Methodist Church and Sunday School receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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