Description

TAVISTOCK HAMLETS MORWELLHAM
SX 47 SW
8/158
- Methodist Church and attached
railings
II
Methodist church. Dated 1861. Rubble, rendered and lined out, slate roof with
bargeboards to front gable end.
Single auditorium plan, with entrance at the liturgical west end under the gallery.
Single storey and basement, gable end front to road has triple lancet, central one
taller, with pointed arched breather above, central pointed arched doorway with
double doors and plain rails to each side, front area enclosed by trefoil-headed
railings with double railing gates in cast iron, set on granite rubble wall with
granite coping. Left and right sides each have 3 lancets. Right side has basement,
(set in slope of ground to left) below plinth level, with 4-centred arched door and 3
triangular-headed 2-light casements of 5 panes each.
Interior blind pointed arch to rear end wall with hood-mould, corbels to inner
springing of arch; 3-bay roof of arched-braces and collars, chamfered, and ceiled
above.
Fittings: full set of box pews; reading desk on chamfered piers with cusped panels to
front with candelabra and communion rail. Upper gallery around front and sides, on
chamfered piers with stair at front right, moulded handrail to front of gallery.
Boxed panelled entrance to front with 4-panelled door left and right, panelling swept
down to sides.

Listing NGR: SX4457969809

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26467341

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