Methodist Chapel And Sunday School

The Methodist chapel and attached Sunday school, built in 1872, is located in South Petherwin. The building features curved slate rubble with grey and pink granite dressings, topped by a steeply pitched slate roof that has bands of darker slates and gabled and polygonally hipped ends. The chapel includes an auditorium with an apsided east end, short transepts, an organ chamber in a small apse at the west end, and a porch on the south side. The design is in the Gothic style, with the auditorium and transepts showcasing tall lancet windows. The transepts have paired lancets and a rose window set in the gable. The polygonal apses at both ends also feature lancets with simple plate tracery; the east end apse has buttresses at the corners and a band of pink granite. A moulded string course runs around the building at impact level, raised over the windows as hoodmoulds. The south porch includes a rose window, buttresses on the half-hipped end, and a pointed arch doorway on the side.

The Sunday school is attached to the north side by a lower linking range and has a half-hipped roof. It features a large five-light wooden window with transoms and leaded panes on the east side, accompanied by a hipped roof porch to the right with a painted arch doorway. There is a similar three-light window on the north end and a truncated lateral stack at the rear.

Inside, the chapel has an arch-braced roof with scissor braces above, simple benches, and a hexagonal pulpit. The arch leading to the organ chamber at the west end has colonettes with stiff-leaf capitals, and the rebuilt organ projects into the auditorium. Some late 20th-century stained glass can be found in the chapel. The Sunday school has a scissor-braced roof and a polygonal reading desk.