Roscarrock Hill Methodist Church And Church Rooms Adjoining On Left

SW 98 SE ST ENDELLION ROSCARROCK HILL, (south side), Port Isaac 9/120 Roscarrock Hill Methodist Church - and Church rooms adjoining on left GV II Methodist chapel and church rooms. 1837 and 1867. Original chapel on left erected in 1837 and converted to school rooms when second chapel built adjoining in 1867. Stone rubble with slate roof with hipped ends. Ground floor originally used as cellar with chapel on first floor. 3 storeys symmetrical 3-window front. Central entrance in ground floor, originally to cellar, now church rooms with C20 glazed doors. 2 flights of stone rubble steps flank this entrance, meeting above at entrance to first floor which has double 6- panel doors in round-arched opening with slate hipped porch. 2 C19 sashes with Gothic glazing bars in round brick arches on first and second floors with blocked oculus in centre above entrance. Bellcote above. Later chapel erected in 1867 of stone rubble with slate roof with hipped ends. Symmetrical 5-window front with 3 full height openings at centre with round arch heads. Ground floor with brick segmental arches to openings and entrances on right and left with double 6-panel doors and fanlights above. First floor windows with radiating glazing bars and round brick arches. Interior of chapel with gallery continuing on 3 sides on cast iron columns with stylised capitals. Fielded panels to balcony with raked seating. The arrangement on the ground floor has been altered and re-orientated with the rostrum moved from the north to the south end and the original benches have been replaced with chairs. Despite these alterations however, the chapel retains many of its original fittings. Important elevations to west side of the harbour. Unusually the methodist chapel at Port Isaac possesses a bell. The old Port Isaac chapel of 1800 appears to have had a belfry and the bell in the 1837 chapel was replaced with a ship's bell in 1862, taken from the Bencoolen which was wrecked off the Bude Coast. Shaw, T. Methodism in the Camelford and Wadebridge Circuit 1743-1963 1963. Stell, C. An Inventory of Non Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses.

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