Trescowe is a hamlet north of Germoe. This profile of Trescowe Wesleyan Chapel has been compiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.
A Wesleyan Methodist chapel is recorded on the 1st and 2nd Editions 1:2500 1880 and 1907 OS Maps. The building survives and is shown on the current Mastermap as the ‘The Old Chapel’. (Cornwall Council Heritage Gateway)
Marked on old maps (1888) and clearly labelled as a Wesleyan chapel, this building is on the right as you come through Trescowe village travelling north.
1 Feb 1864: Lease, Wesleyan Methodist chapel, Trescowe, Breage. Parties: 1) Thomas Alexander Fraser, Baron Lovat, The Right Honourable Granville George, Earl Granville, Mark Millbank of Thorp Perrow, Bedale, Yorkshire, esquire, and The Reverend George Townshend Hudson of Harthill, Yorkshire, trustees of the will of Francis Godolphin D’arcy, Duke of Leeds, deceased. 2) George Godolphin Osborne, Duke of Leeds. 3) Thomas Tregonning of Breage, yeoman. Term: 60 years. Rent: 5 shillings. Plot of ground, of 4 lace, being the site of the Wesleyan Methodist chapel; also part of the northern end of the field intended for enlarging the chapel, in Trescaw [Trescowe]. Number 216, Manor of Godolphin. (Kresen Kernow RH/1/1843)
1864: Build date. (SWChurches)
The chapel was built as a Wesleyan chapel. (SWChurches)
1864-1908: Minutes and accounts, Trescowe Wesleyan Chapel, Breage. Accounts, including building accounts, 1864-1892; minutes and accounts, 1893-1908. (Kresen Kernow: MRMZ/33)
1894-1913: Collection journal, Trescowe Wesleyan Chapel, Breage. (Kresen Kernow MRMZ/34)
1932: The Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and the United Methodist Church amalgamated to become the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
1932: Became Trescowe Methodist Church. (SWChurches)
1932: Part of Marazion Methodist Circuit. (SWChurches)
1940: Seating for 265. (David Easton, Methodist Minister and historian)
1978: Closed. (David Easton, Methodist Minister and historian)
Circa 1980: Closed. (SWChurches)
Dwelling. (David Easton, Methodist Minister and historian)
2021: holiday cottage.
The Old Chapel (Photo: Jo Lewis)