North Country is a short distance to the north of Redruth. This profile of North Country Wesleyan Chapel has been compiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.
Possible First Wesleyan Chapel
Old maps show the Sunday school opposite the Wesleyan church and it is not unreasonable to suggest that this Sunday school was previously the older chapel, but this cannot be verified.
Seating for 180.
Robert Bond (Minister)
1826 Wesleyan Chapel
1826: North Country Wesleyan Chapel built.
There are chapels at North Country for the Wesleyan Methodists (built in 1826) and the United Methodist Free Church, which was built in 1864-5. (Genuki)
1880: “A correspondent remarks that the following are among the places of religions worship in and near Redruth: Parish Church, Chapel of Ease, Dopps Mission Room, Church at Treleigh, Quaker Chape], Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, United Methodist Free Church, Bible Christian Chapel, Primitive Methodist Chapel, Plainangwarry Town Mission Chapel, Methodist Free Church, South Downs, Wesleyan Chapel, South Downs, Primitive and Wesleyan Chapels near Blowing House, Wesleyan Chapel near Churchtown, North Country Wesleyan Chapel, old and new, North Country United Methodist Free Church, Lower North Country Primitive Chapel. Bible Christian Chapel, Wheal Peavor, Redruth Highway Wesleyan Chapel, Harris’s Mill Wesleyan Chapel, Primitive Methodist Chapel. Redruth Highway. At the last census only one half of the people in Redruth town and parish went to any place of worship, out of a population of 10,675, and since then six places of worship have been built in the parish. The population was then 10,676. The population is less at present.” (Cornubian and Redruth Times – Friday 26 November 1880)
1894: “North Country, On Tuesday evening at the annual meeting North Country Wesleyan Band of Hope the following officers were elected: Provident. Mr E. Johns; vice-president, Mr William Nicholas; treasurer, Mr Henry Telia; secretaries, Messrs S. Stevens and W. Jeffery.” (Cornubian and Redruth Times – Friday 17 August 1894)
Concert in the North Country Wesleyan Chapel which was lent to North Country UMFC. (Cornubian and Redruth Times – Saturday 04 March 1905)
(Bragg & Co / Cornubian and Redruth Times – Thursday 21 September 1911)
1916-1925: Accounts, society stewards, North Country Wesleyan Chapel, Redruth. (Kresen Kernow MRR/5015/5)
1932: The Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and the United Methodist Church amalgamated to become the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
1932: Became North Country Methodist Church. (SW Churches)
1934-1936: Correspondence, deeds, Lower North Country Methodist Church, Redruth. Chapel left the Methodist Connexion in 1936 and became an independent chapel. (Kresen Kernow MRR/1342)
1967: Letter, compulsory purchase of Sunday School, North Country Methodist Church, Redruth. Letter from Camborne-Redruth Urban District Council. (Kresen Kernow MRR/1343)
Sunday school disappeared on maps with the building of the Trenoweth estate.
28 Nov 1968: Letter, appointment of trustees, North Country Methodist Church, Redruth. Letter from Department of Chapel Affairs to the Reverend T W Sanders of Redruth, concerning memorandum of choice and appointment of new trustees of 17 October 1968. (Kresen Kernow MRR/1654)
1912-1976: Trust minutes, North Country Methodist Church, Redruth. Gap in records between 1914 and 1936. Kresen Kernow MRR/1114)
1977-1984: Minutes, Church Council, North Country Methodist Church, Redruth. (Kresen Kernow MRR/1181)
Wesleyan chapel. Probably mid-late C19 (pre-1880). Stuccoed walls and original scantle slate roofs with coped gable ends. 2-window front has central pedimented porch. Low coped forecourt wall and dressed granite gate-piers. Associated with Sunday school 176402, now demolished. Still in use according to Google Earth. (Heritage Gateway)
North Country Wesleyan Chapel just before closure (Photo: Jo Lewis)
2016: Planning permission granted for conversion to one dwelling.
2017: Closed.
Became known as Summer Chapel.
Converted to two properties.