Description

CAMBORNE CHURCH ROAD
SW 63 NW
Penponds
7/32 (west side)
Penponds Methodist Church
GV II

Bible Christians Chapel, now Methodist church. Dated 1844 in gable. Gabled
facade of snecked killas with granite quoins, sides and rear of slobbered
and painted uncoursed rubble; slate roof. Small building, rectangular in
plan, gable to road. Two storeys; the gabled facade has 2 tall round-
headed 18-pane sashed windows with radiating glazing bars, and painted
brick heads, and above and between these a granite datestone inscribed
"BIBLE CHRISTIANS
CHAPEL. 1844"
The south side has a gabled porch offset to the right, with a doorway in
its front (right-hand side) wall and a lancet in its gable wall; attached to
the chapel wall in front of the porch, a wooden notice board in the form
of an Ionic aedicule with fluted colonettes and open pediment with egg-
and-dart decoration; to the rear of the porch, 2 tall 18-pane sashed
windows. The north side wall has 2 similar windows in opposed positions.
Continued to the rear and on a slightly lower level is a small Sunday
School which has a doorway in its south side and one 4-pane sashed
window in each side. Interior: small, and little altered: gallery at east end
supported by 2 cast-iron Tuscan columns, with ornamental iron openwork
balustrade, reached by a 1/4-turn staircase at the south end; basket-arched
choir gallery at east end (with added organ on this, originally hand-pumped
and pump handle still in situ); rostrum with turned balusters; benches with
painted oval metal numbers on the ends, and umbrella brackets; small
Sunday School room into which the raked rear end of the choir gallery
projects, supported by 2 iron columns. A simple building redolent of its
period.

Listing NGR: SW6356339248

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26435453

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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