Mapping Methodism – Grampound Wesleyan Chapel

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Grampound is a village at an ancient crossing point of the River Fal and today is on the A390 road six miles west of St Austell and eight miles east of Truro. This profile of Grampound Wesleyan Chapel has been compiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.

 

1825: The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Well Ope build date.

(https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CON/Creed/GrampoundBook – Amy Bane and Mary Oliver Halsgrove Press, Tiverton (1998), ISBN 184114018X)

Circa 1862. (SWChurches) Possibly a replacement chapel, a refurbishment or a simply mistake.

Built as a Wesleyan Chapel. (SWChurches)

1875: Charity Commission scheme, Grampound West Wesleyan Chapel. Scheme and correspondence. (Kresen Kernow MRT/709)

1 Jul 1881: Counterpart lease, site for schoolroom by Grampound Wesleyan Chapel. Parties: 1) CHT Hawkins, esquire, of Trewithen. 2) James Treffry and others, trustees of Grampound Wesleyan Chapel. Property: ground adjoining the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel at Grampound on which to build a schoolroom and stable. Includes plan. Part of the manor of Grampound and Trewollas. (Kresen Kernow J/1/308)

1862-1884: Correspondence, Grampound West Wesleyan Chapel. Correspondence between minister and Chapel Affairs office. (Kresen Kernow MRT/707)

1875-1885: Correspondence, construction of Sunday School, Grampound West Wesleyan Chapel. Mainly concerns sanction for building Sunday School. (Kresen Kernow MRT/708)

1892: Memorandum of appointment, new trustees, Grampound West Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. (Kresen Kernow MRT/710)

1892: List of trustees, Grampound West Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. List of trustees willing to serve. (Kresen Kernow MRT/714)

5th March 1896: New organ. (Royal Cornwall Gazette – Thursday 31 December 1896)

1903: Certificate of registration, Grampound West Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Certificate of registration as place of religious worship. (Kresen Kernow MRT/715)

1903: Certificate of registration, marriages, Grampound West Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. (Kresen Kernow MRT/716)

1887-1916: Trust minutes, Grampound Wesleyan Chapel. (Kresen Kernow MRA/87)

1916: Memorandum of appointment, new trustees, Grampound West Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. (Kresen Kernow MRT/711)

1916: Memorandum of appointment, new trustees, Grampound West Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. Trustees for school. (Kresen Kernow MRT/712)

Grampound Wesleyan Chapel 1802 holding property “unproductive of income). (Cornish Guardian – Thursday 17 September 1931)

1932: The Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and the United Methodist Church amalgamated to become the Methodist Church of Great Britain.

1932: Became Grampound West Methodist Chapel. (SWChurches)

Part of Truro Methodist Circuit. (SWChurches)

1940: Seating for 160. (David Easton, Methodist Minister and historian)

1945: Memorandum of appointment, new trustees, Grampound West Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. (Kresen Kernow MRT/713)

1969: Closed: (David Easton, Methodist Minister and historian)

1970: Closed. (SWChurches)

Congregation joined Grampound East. (David Easton, Methodist Minister and historian)

1970: The Chapel was sold and after several failed planning applications it was demolished and the Old Sunday school converted into a private dwelling.

Chapel demolished and turned into a garden and the Sunday school became a dwelling. (David Easton, Methodist Minister and historian)

 

 

 

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