Crippleshill Methodist Church And Schoolroom

Crippleshill Methodist Church and Schoolroom is a Nonconformist (Bible Christian) chapel built in 1861, with a schoolroom added in 1931. The chapel features painted rubble walls with rusticated quoins on the schoolroom and an asbestos slate roof with a coped front gable for the chapel. The schoolroom has an original scantle slate roof with crested and pierced clay ridge tiles. The building has a small rectangular aisle-less plan for the chapel and a small schoolroom added at right angles to the right-hand side. It is a single storey with a symmetrical two-window front. The original 12-pane hornless sash windows are present on the end elevations, along with a central doorway that has a squat overlight and a panelled door, as well as a name and date panel at the centre of the gable.

Inside, the church retains its original complete set of box pews, along with loose benches in front. There is possibly an original rostrum with an arcaded balustrade over a three-bay arcade, and a communion rail with a turned balustrade and quadrant plan ends. This chapel is one of only six examples of simple wayside chapels in Cornwall known to retain all of their original box pews.