Church of St Columb Minor (Methodist) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 May 1988. Church. 9 related planning applications.
Church of St Columb Minor (Methodist)
- WRENN ID
- fading-barrel-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Austell and Newquay MP: Noah Law (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 May 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Columb Minor (Methodist), Church Street, Newquay, TR7 3ES
- OS grid reference
- SW 839 621
- Coordinates
- 50.41935, -5.04318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Columb Minor is a Methodist church dating to the late 19th century, located in Newquay. Constructed of squared stone rubble with granite dressings, it has a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends. The building is planned with a single auditorium, featuring entrances at the front gable and the ritual east-facing rear. It is designed in a Gothic style.
The front gable is raised and features stone pinnacles to the right and left, raised coped verges, and a finial with a triple breather at the apex. The central doorway is a triple-light design with two-centred arched lights, the central light being taller and incorporating Perpendicular tracery. A band course runs across the gable, featuring blank cusped arches to the right and left. Small gabled porches flank the right and left sides of the front gable, each with two-centred arched doorways and hood moulds, leading to pointed arched plank doors. The sides of the church have three paired pointed arched windows with brick dressings, and weathered buttresses. A smaller paired window of a similar style is located on the left side.
A single-story corridor, dating to the 20th century, is attached to the left side and links the main church to a single-story polygonal block. The polygonal block has a hipped roof and round-arched lights. A small, single-story addition from the 20th century is attached to the rear. The interior of the church was not inspected at the time of listing.
Local climate
Church of St Columb Minor (Methodist) receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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