Sennen is a coastal civil parish and a village in Cornwall approximately eight miles west-southwest of Penzance. This profile of Sennen Wesleyan Chapel has been compiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell.
Located on the A 30 to Sennen. The chapel is on the east side of the road at Mayon, now a residence called The Old Methodist Chapel.
Methodist chapel, probably late C19 and slightly later attached Sunday school. Dressed coursed granite front, otherwise granite rubble or rendered; scantle slate roof with crested and pierced clay ridge tiles and turned finial over front gable. Italianate influence with round-arched openings. Plain fanlights over horned sashes. 2-window front. Gabled entrance porch to 2nd bay of right-hand return. (Heritage Gateway)
1815: Build date. (Methodism in West Penwith – A Heritage at Risk / West Penwith Resources)
Seats for 171. (West Penwith Resources)
1851: Richard Trembath steward. (West Penwith Resources)
1873: Survey reports 100 seats. (West Penwith Resources)
1887: Revival Services. (The Cornish Telegraph – Thursday 17 November 1887)
1907: Sennen. The Wesleyan chapel is undergoing repairs. Mr. Matthews, of New Shop, has the contract. (Cornishman – Thursday 18 July 1907)
1932: The Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist and the United Methodist Church amalgamated to become the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
1932: Presumably became Sennen Methodist Chapel.
1940: Seating for 97. (David Easton, Methodist Minister and historian)
2001: Sennen Methodist Chapel closed. (David Easton, Methodist Minister and historian)
Sennen Methodist Chapel closed in favour of Escalls Chapel. (Methodism in West Penwith – A Heritage at Risk)
Building sold. (Methodism in West Penwith – A Heritage at Risk)