Description

SW 53 SE CROWAN TOWNSHEND

3/177 Schoolroom to Townshend Methodist
- Church, adjoining outbuildings and
courtyard walls
GV II

Non-conformist chapel, since circa 1871 the schoolroom of Townshend Methodist Church
qv., including the adjoining outbuildings and the front courtyard walls. Circa early
Cl9, extended circa mid C19. Painted rubble walls.
Plan : rectangular aisle-less plan with rectangular vestry adjoining the right hand
gable end and traphouse right of the vestry, both stepped back from the front.
Single storey. 3 window east front. Pointed arched window openings with original
hornless sashes with intersecting glazing bars. The doorway is to the left of the
middle window, Original 12 pane, hornless sashes at rear of chapel and a 16 pane
hornless sash at rear of vestry. Painted low rubble-coped rubble walls enclose a
rectangular courtyard in front of schoolroom and vestry. Round-headed granite
monolithic gate piers and iron gate to gateway aligned with schoolroom doorway.
Interior : very simple with boarded ceiling and plastered walls.

Listing NGR: SW5917132910

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596948

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)