Mapping Methodism – West Looe United Reform Church – Riverside Chapel (Former Congregational Chapel)

The Looe Chapels have been profiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.   (Photo: Barry West)  Located in Quay Road. The first chapel in Looe was founded by Sir Harry Trelawny, a Cornish eccentric, who converted to Congregationalism and built a chapel in West Looe Square in 1777. Kellys 1902 notes: The Congregationalists were first…Continue Reading “Mapping Methodism – West Looe United Reform Church – Riverside Chapel (Former Congregational Chapel)”

Mapping Methodism – East Looe Wesleyan Chapel

 The Looe Chapels have been profiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.   Nonconformist Chapel (19th Century – 1801 AD to 1900 AD) Large Methodist chapel with attached schoolroom, now converted to residential use. Probably early or mid C19 in origin, remodelled late C19 (1). Stucco; slurried slate roofs with crested ridge tiles and Italianate…Continue Reading “Mapping Methodism – East Looe Wesleyan Chapel”

Mapping Methodism – East Looe Tower Hill United Methodist Church

The Looe Chapels have been profiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.   A nonconformist chapel, constructed c1841, at this location in East Looe is recorded on the 1st and 2nd Editions of the 1:2500 1880 and 1907 OS Maps. Still extant but now a Masonic Hall (b1) (Heritage Gateway) This two-storey stone-fronted converted chapel…Continue Reading “Mapping Methodism – East Looe Tower Hill United Methodist Church”

Mapping Methodism – Fowey Wesleyan Chapel 

The Fowey Chapels have been profiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.     The fourteenth century chapel of St Catherine stood on the cliff top overlooking Readymoney Cove (between castle and camera). About a hundred metres west of here, on the west side of the harbour entrance, about nine metres below the top of…Continue Reading “Mapping Methodism – Fowey Wesleyan Chapel “

Mapping Methodism – Fowey United Reform Church

 The Fowey Chapels have been profiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.   (Photo: Jo Lewis) The United Methodist chapel on Lostwithiel Street is now disused. Late C19. Dressed granite front; dry slate roof with pierced and crested clay ridge tiles; steep pyramidal tower roof with courses of fish scale slates. Robust Gothic style with…Continue Reading “Mapping Methodism – Fowey United Reform Church”

Mapping Methodism – Fowey Bible Christian Chapel

The Fowey Chapels have been profiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.   The comment below, “The members belonging to the Bible Christian Connexion resident in the place have had for the past fifty years to worship in various incommodious and otherwise unsuitable premises,” suggests that the Bible Christians had used a number of locations…Continue Reading “Mapping Methodism – Fowey Bible Christian Chapel”