Description

MARAZION FORE STREET, Marazion
SW 5230-5330

5/10 Methodist Church, forecourt walls
and steps

GV II

Wesleyan chapel forecourt and steps. 1893. Dressed granite brought to course with
granite dressings to the front gable end, rockfaced granite to the sides. Dry
Delabole slate roof with brick chimney over the rear gable end.
Plan: rectangular aisle-less plan with galleries. Ritual east end at north and
entrance hall with flanking stairs at south. Gothic style.
Exterior : 2 storey elevations. Symmetrical 3-bay south entrance gable front with
wider central bay. Weathered buttresses dividing the bays and clasping the corners.
Pinnacles over the buttresses and cruciform finial over the coped gable. Pair of
central pointed-arched doorways within round outer arch. Smaller round-headed arches
over 2-light windows to the bays on either side. Cogged mid-floor cornice. First
floor has similarly disposed openings but under pointed arches. Similar paired
lights. The central window has 2 paired pointed lights, with rose window over. Y-
traceried wooden windows. Paired pointed arched gable ventilators. Punctuating
bands.
Interior not inspected.
In front of the entrance 2 L-plan flights of granite steps flank a wide landing with
square granite coped balustrade at the front. The stairs have square chamfered
granite newels with moulded caps and in front of the blind balustrade are 4 memorial
niches. Adjoining the road are cruciform headed granite monolithic gate piers and
some cast ironwork.

Listing NGR: SW5206330660

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26597475

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