Category for articles related to the project Mapping Methodism
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)”
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”
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”
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”
The Polruan Methodist Chapels have been profiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell Congregational / Wesleyan Chapel / Sunday School Congregational Nonconformist Chapel (Post Medieval). Wesleyan Chapel, now converted to a house and altered. Killas rubble with granite dressings. (Heritage Gateway) The Congregational chapel, Sunday school on map, sat at the end of West…Continue Reading “Mapping Methodism – Polruan Wesleyan Chapel”
The Polruan Methodist Chapels have been profiled by Jo Lewis and Tony Mansell Located in Fore Street. 1879: Build date. Built as a United Methodist Free Church. (SWChurches) Seating: 300. (David Easton, Methodist Historian) It is a stone building built at a cost of £1,050 for 320 sittings (Kelly’s 1902). There are records of…Continue Reading “Mapping Methodism – Polruan United Methodist Free Church & Sunday School”