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HER Number:137838
Name:LOOE - Post Medieval nonconformist chapel, Post Medieval nonconformist chapel

Summary

A Congregational chapel rebuilt in c1880 replaced a Congregational chapel built in c1707.

Grid Reference:SX 2535 5339
Parish:Looe, Caradon, Cornwall
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Protected Status

  • Conservation Area: LOOE

Other References/Statuses

  • Cornwall PROJECT ID: CL
  • Primary Record No. (1985-2009): 137838

Monument Type(s):

Full description

Congregational chapel re-built c1880. Replacing a previous Congregational chapel built c1707. Small burial ground behind.

Built in the Geometrical Gothic style, constructed of Liskeard stone with granite dressings. Polychrome stonework with freestone dressings and dry slate gabled roof. The Gothic style, three-bay buttressed and gabled front has two-light traceried windows to first floor and paired lancets below. Gabled porch at far left has traceried stone fanlight.

The interior was surrounded by galleries on three sides and sittings for 370 people. It cost £1020 to build, mostly by voluntary contribution. At the north end is a stained glass window given by John Freeman Norris esq, late of Looe (1).

The Congregationalists combined with East Looe's Wesleyan Methodist congregation to form a new United Methodist Church, 'Riverside Church'sometime shortly after 1965.


<1> Vernacular Architecture Group, 2019, VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE GROUP SPRING CONFERENCE 2019 EAST CORNWALL, p23 (Report). SCO28711.

Sources / Further Reading

[1]SCO28711 - Report: Vernacular Architecture Group. 2019. VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE GROUP SPRING CONFERENCE 2019 EAST CORNWALL. Devon and Cornwall. p23.

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

Related records: none recorded