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Goonhavern Methodist Church, with Forecourt Walls Gate and Adjoining Schoolroom

A Grade II Listed Building in Goonhavern, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.3424 / 50°20'32"N

Longitude: -5.1088 / 5°6'31"W

OS Eastings: 178895

OS Northings: 53788

OS Grid: SW788537

Mapcode National: GBR Z9.SK56

Mapcode Global: FRA 0854.CHZ

Plus Code: 9C2P8VRR+XF

Entry Name: Goonhavern Methodist Church, with Forecourt Walls Gate and Adjoining Schoolroom

Listing Date: 31 October 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1312552

English Heritage Legacy ID: 63708

ID on this website: 101312552

Location: Goonhavern, Cornwall, TR4

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Perranzabuloe

Built-Up Area: Goonhavern

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Perranzabuloe

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


PERRANZABULOE GOONHAVERN
SW 75 SE
5/69 Goonhavern Methodist Church, with
forecourt walls gate and
adjoining schoolroom
-
GV II

Nonconformist chapel, forecourt walls and gate and adjoining school room. Circa
early C19 schoolroom. Circa late C19 chapel. Killas rubble walls with brick
dressings. Asbestos slate roof with pedimented gable at the entrance front.
Plan: Rectangular aisle-less plan probably with galleries on 3 sides. Schoolroom
adjoining at rear and small room probably a former vestry (now used as a funeral
directors) at far rear. Schoolroom is possibly the original chapel.
Exterior: Unaltered 2-storey elevations (chapel) and single-storey schoolroom.
Symmetrical 3-window south-west pedimented entrance front with central round-arched
doorway. Plinth impost strings (string continues as hoodmould over first-floor
windows). Cogged upper cornice to triangular pediment, stepped lower cornice.
Round-headed window openings. Original doors and windows. Traceried tympanum over
pair of V-jointed, boarded doors. Horned sashes with glazing bars and fanlight heads
(3 similar windows to each side wall). Schoolroom has 3-window north-west front with
doorway on its left. Original door and windows; 4-panel door, 16-pane hornless
sashes. Cement coped rubble walls at roadside adjoining front left-hand side of
entrance front. Original braced iron gates.
Interior: Unaltered interior has gallery with panelled front, moulded plaster
ceiling cornices and an elaborate central ceiling rose with acanthus detail.


Listing NGR: SW7889553788

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