Description

CAMBORNE NEWTON ROAD
SW 63 NE
(west side)
8/71 Troon
Troon Methodist Church
II

Wesleyan Methodist chapeL Dated 1863 in gable. Snecked killas rubble with
granite quoins and dressings, rubble sides and rear, slate roof. Rectangular
plan, 3x3 bays, gable to road. Two storeys; the gabled 3-bay facade is
symmetrical, and has a wide basket-arched doorway in the centre with
quoined jambs and stepped ashlar voussoirs, panelled double doors and
fanlight with 2 raked glazing bars; tall round-headed windows on each side
and a shorter one over the door, all with quoined jambs and ashlar
voussoirs (and stained glass); and a hollow-moulded cornice to the gable,
which is treated as a pediment and contains a moulded roundel with raised
lettering:-
WESLEY
1863
CHAPEL
The 3-bay side walls have square-headed windows at ground floor, round-
headed above. Interior: horseshoe gallery carried on a beam supported by
cast-iron Tuscan columns with coupled brackets to the projected front,
which is panelled and has consoles and modillions to the top rail, and a
clock in the centre of the east end (facing the pulpit); original benches in
the gallery, in a style reminiscent of the C18, with high plain-panelled
backs and ramped partitions; large and elaborate moulded plaster ceiling
rose; balustraded rostrum with bow-fronted panelled pulpit; apse flanked by
splayed Corinthian pilasters and now filled by organ. A good example of its
type and date, and now the only one in Troon, a second having been
demolished.

Listing NGR: SW6612038230

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453511

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)