(Map: Cornwall Heritage Gateway)
Newtown is west of Marazion on what is now the link road from the A30 to the railway coast line. This profile of Newtown Wesleyan Chapel has been compiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.
The Wesleyan Chapel was on the east side of Newtown Lane in what is now a field in front of the disability centre. The road to the chapel remains as the entrance to the field.
A Methodist Chapel is recorded at Newtown on the Ordnance Survey first edition 1:2500 map (1) but is no longer extant (2). (Cornwall Heritage Gateway)
The Wesleyan Methodists had a large chapel at Crowlas, a chapel at Whitecross built in 1858, another at Trenowin, Newtown and Canonstown. (Genuki)
Unknown build date but referred to as “many years ago” in 1888.
1858: Newtown Sunday school anniversary. (The Cornish Telegraph – Wednesday 08 September 1858)
1888: “A new chapel is erected on Ludgvan old turnpike road, to be called the Tolverth Wesleyan Chapel, and the worshippers in the Newtown Chapel will remove the new building when completed.” (The Cornish Telegraph – Thursday 23 August 1888)
1888: “TOLVERTH WESLEYAN CHAPEL. LAYING MEMORIAL STONES. The hamlets of Long Rock and Newtown contain a large number of Wesleyan inhabitants, who have long been inconvenienced by the dilapidated condition of the old Newtown Chapel. This rude structure, with its cob walls and primitive fittings, was constructed by the miners many years ago, in the days when the neighbourhood was a productive mineral field. The erection of a new chapel was decided upon some time ago …” (The Cornish Telegraph – Thursday 25 October 1888)
1889: THE OPENING OF A NEW WESLEYAN CHAPEL AT LONGROCK, LUDGVAN. The services in connection with the opening of the Tolverth new chapel, which has been lately built to meet the requirements of the inhabitants of the villages Longrock and Newtown commenced on Friday afternoon. The members the society and congregation have, for many years, felt that new place of worship was greatly needed, as the old cob ‘clob’ building at Newtown, besides being small and inconvenient, was in imminent danger of falling down from the effects of age and natural decay…” (Cornishman – Thursday 27 June 1889)
Circa 1889: Closed.
1907: No longer shown on maps.