Description

ST LEVAN LITTLE TRETHEWEY
SW 32 SE
7/189 Graveyard walls of Trethewey
- Methodist chapel, gate-piers, gates
and adjoining trap-house
GV II
Churchyard walls, gate-piers, gates and adjoining trap-house. Circa 1868. Granite
ashlar, roughly coursed dressed granite, granite rubble and rock-faced granite
copings. Trap-house has rectangular grouted scantle slate roof with gable ends.
Walls on 4 sides of churchyard and perimeter wall of adjacent schoolroom. Gateways
in front of paths to chapel, schoolroom and trap-house doorways. Adjoining the
right-hand (east wall) is a trap-house with stable with loft in roof space.
Exterior: Trap-house has south front with wide central doorway, very narrow doorway
on the left and stable doorway on the right. Chapel has convex quadrant-on-plan
gateway with square gate-piers and terminal piers. The flanking walls are ramped up.
Gateway to schoolroom is smaller and has square monolithic piers. The flanking walls
are also ramped up. Piers have rock faced granite. Original cast-iron gates to
chapel gateway.
Interior of trap-house not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW3801323809

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26598433

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