Camborne Methodist Church

Camborne Methodist Church, formerly known as Camborne Wesley Chapel, is a Methodist church built in 1828 and altered in 1911. It features a granite ashlar facade, with the sides and rear constructed from uncoursed killas rubble, and the south side rendered. The church has a slate roof and a rectangular plan oriented on an east-west axis, with a gable facing the road.

In a classical style, the building is two storeys high with five symmetrical bays. The facade includes a pediment above the three central bays and banded corner pilasters. The original porch has been extended to create a continuous portico, which features a three-bay arcaded center formed by two pairs of fluted Doric columns in antis. This portico protects three round-headed doorways with panelled double doors and semicircular fanlight tracery, along with enclosed gallery entrances that have round-headed windows in the outer bays. All of this is set beneath a plain frieze and moulded cornice.

On the first floor, there are five round-headed windows, with those in the three-bay center linked by an impost band. The windows have early 20th-century joinery with a hooped center and margin panes. The facade is completed with a band, a deep frieze featuring three raised panels in the center and ramped ends, a moulded cornice, and a pediment. The windows on the five-bay side walls are square-headed at ground floor and round-headed above.

There is a rear extension that includes a school, but it is not of special interest. Inside, the church features a horse-shoe gallery supported by iron columns with stiff-leaf capitals, and a mahogany panelled front. Fluted Corinthian pilasters lead to a basket-arched apse, which was formerly an orchestra area but is now a choir gallery. The original 'City Road' arrangement of the communion rail behind the pulpit has been replaced by a 20th-century rostrum with a communion rail in front.