Crippleshill Methodist Church and Schoolroom is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1999. Church, schoolroom.
Crippleshill Methodist Church and Schoolroom
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-floor-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1999
- Type
- Church, schoolroom
- Address
- Crippleshill Methodist Church and Schoolroom, St. Just
- OS grid reference
- SW 371 301
- Coordinates
- 50.11295, -5.67732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Crippleshill Methodist Church and Schoolroom sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. 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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