Graveyard Walls of Trethewey Methodist Chapel, Gate-Piers, Gates and Adjoining Trap-House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Churchyard walls, trap-house.
Graveyard Walls of Trethewey Methodist Chapel, Gate-Piers, Gates and Adjoining Trap-House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-stair-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1988
- Type
- Churchyard walls, trap-house
- OS grid reference
- SW 380 238
- Coordinates
- 50.05657, -5.66164
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The graveyard walls of Trethewey Methodist Chapel, along with the gate-piers, gates, and adjoining trap-house, were built around 1868. They are constructed from granite ashlar, roughly coursed dressed granite, granite rubble, and rock-faced granite copings. The trap-house features a rectangular grouted scantle slate roof with gable ends. The walls enclose the churchyard on all four sides and also form the perimeter wall of the adjacent schoolroom. There are gateways leading to the paths for the chapel, schoolroom, and trap-house doorways.
On the right-hand (east) side, the trap-house includes a south front with a wide central doorway, a very narrow doorway on the left, and a stable doorway on the right. The chapel has a convex quadrant-on-plan gateway with square gate-piers and terminal piers, and the flanking walls are ramped up. The gateway to the schoolroom is smaller, featuring square monolithic piers, with ramped flanking walls as well. The piers are made of rock-faced granite, and the original cast-iron gates are present at the chapel gateway. The interior of the trap-house has not been inspected.
Local climate
Graveyard Walls of Trethewey Methodist Chapel, Gate-Piers, Gates and Adjoining Trap-House 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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