Portscatho United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. Chapel.
Portscatho United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-pier-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Portscatho United Reformed Church, the Lugger, Gerrans
- OS grid reference
- SW 878 351
- Coordinates
- 50.1786, -4.97236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Portscatho United Reformed Church is a Nonconformist chapel built in 1822. It features stucco over rubble walls and a dry Delabole slate roof with gable ends. The building has a rectangular plan, with a rostrum at the east end, a gallery at the west end, and a north porch. Designed in a simple Early English Gothic style, it is a single-storey structure with three windows on the north entrance front.
The main entrance porch is located between the second and third windows and has a central pointed doorway with double wooden doors that have elaborate iron hinges and a plaster hoodmould. The exterior includes two-tier diagonal buttresses with offsets, exposed purlin ends, and a rafter gable topped with a turned finial and pendant. There is an additional pointed doorway with a hoodmould on the far right. The wooden windows each contain two pointed arched lights set within pointed arched openings, also featuring hoodmoulds.
Inside, the church has a little altered interior with a segmental arched plaster ceiling that includes a moulded cornice decorated with acanthus and roses. The central rose has similar detailing, along with two additional roses featuring Greek key designs. The gallery front displays blind intersecting round arches, and there is a cast iron wall candelabra. The rostrum has been slightly altered, and the pulpit dates from around 1920.
Local climate
Portscatho United Reformed Church receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. 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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