Wheal Busy Chapel, Attached Walls, Gate-piers and Railings
WHEAL BUSY CHAPEL, ATTACHED WALLS, GATE-PIERS AND RAILINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386521
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Wheal Busy Chapel, Attached Walls, Gate-piers and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- WHEAL BUSY CHAPEL, ATTACHED WALLS, GATE-PIERS AND RAILINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386521
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Wheal Busy Chapel, Attached Walls, Gate-piers and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHEAL BUSY CHAPEL, ATTACHED WALLS, GATE-PIERS AND RAILINGS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHEAL BUSY CHAPEL, ATTACHED WALLS, GATE-PIERS AND RAILINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chacewater
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 73824 45238
Details
SW 74 NW
1044/1/10003
CHACEWATER WHEAL BUSY
Wheal Busy Chapel, attached walls, gate-piers and railings
II*
Bible Christian chapel. 1863 datestone. MATERIALS: killas rubble with granite dressings; grouted scantle slate roofs with pierced and crested red clay ridge tiles and end finials; cast-iron ogee gutters and downpipes.
PLAN: small rectangular aisle-less plan plus later C19 porch in front of original doorway; gallery to ritual west end.
EXTERIOR: single storey; symmetrical 2-window front. Segmental brick arches over original 6/9-pane hornless sashes at both front and rear. Gable-ended porch has open braced truss as barge board over granite name and date panel with relief inscription. Basket-arched doorway has leaded overlight and pair of panelled doors; flanking leaded sidelights and side buttresses.
INTERIOR: unaltered interior with plaster ceiling cornice and roses; panelled dado and panelled gallery front carried on brackets and the gallery suported on slender columns; L-plan staircases with stick balusters and turned newel posts. The original round-arched doorway has a spoked fanlight over pair of panelled doors. FITTINGS: there are box pews in both the gallery and in the central area below, plus space for loose fittings at either side. There are also box choir and leaders' pews ramped up on either side of the communion area and rostrum. The pews and other fittings are panelled, the lower pews have open balustraded friezes at the front and sides including the doors. The communion area has similar detail to its front and to a communion rail in front of the rostrum. There is a loose leaders' bench in front of this. The rostrum has a projecting panelled centrepiece with arched panels and a moulded cornice. There is a tall turned balustrade on either side with rounded corner to the right and a straight-flight staircase to the left. The handrail is surmounted by 2 turned lamp standards.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: on either side of a garden court at the front of the chapel isa slurried rubble wall with gabled coping. At the front of the courtyard are low granite coped walls surmounted by ornate cast-iron railings. The central gateway has square granite piers and a fine cast-iron gate, and there is a cobbled path which leads to the front door of the chapel. This is arguably the best surviving complete example of the simple type of wayside chapel in Cornwall and one of only 6 examples of its type to retain all the original fittings. The unusual and beautiful fittings are quite remarkable.
Listing NGR: SW7382445238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473911
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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