The Donald Thomas Centre, With Forecourt Railings

CAMBORNE CHAPEL STREET SW 64 SW (west side) 10/28 The Donald Thomas Centre, with 1.12.51 forecourt railings (formerly listed as The Literary Institute)

GV II*

Literary Institute, now social centre. 1842, enlarged 1852; altered. Granite ashlar, slate roof. T-plan formed by hall at right-angles to the street flanked by small wings; plus later extensions to the rear. Greek Revival style. All single storey, but the hall much taller, presenting a giant Doric portico, distyle in antis, with triglyph frieze and mutule pediment, protecting a central doorway with simple pedimented surround and 2 round- headed windows with moulded architraves and keystones, and glazing with coloured margin panes. The wings, at right-angles to the hall, each have clasping corner pilasters, a sashed window with sill-band and shouldered architrave (4- and 12-paned respectively), and entablature with simplified triglyphs and guttae; their gable walls are pedimented, with a triglyph frieze. Forecourt enclosed by simple spear railings with wrought-iron gates. To the rear of the right-hand (north) wing is a former lecture hall, added in 1852, which is stuccoed, with vermiculated quoins and surrounds to openings, a tripartite window to the 1st portion, and a round-headed doorway with a shallow porch, flanked by tall round-headed windows on a high level. Interior altered. History: Camborne Literary Institute founded in 1829, this building erected on site given by Richard Vivyan and formerly occupied by 1st Methodist chapel in Camborne.

Listing NGR: SW6469340052