Penrose Methodist Chapel is a redundant

Redundant church

A redundant church is a church building that is no longer required for regular public worship. The phrase is particularly used to refer to former Anglican buildings in the United Kingdom, but may refer to any disused church building around the world...

 Methodist

Methodism

Methodism is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide. The movement traces its roots to John Wesley's evangelistic revival movement within Anglicanism. His younger brother...

 chapel situated some 1.5 miles (2 km) to the west of the hamlet of St Ervan

St Ervan

St Ervan is a rural civil parish and hamlet in Cornwall, United Kingdom. The hamlet is situated three miles southwest of Padstow. Notable features in St Ervan are the Anglican church, the village hall and the Nonconformist cemetery,...

 in Cornwall

Cornwall

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, England. It has been designated by English Heritage

English Heritage

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 as a Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Historic Chapels Trust.

The chapel was built in 1861 and is constructed in local slate

Slate

Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering...

. Its plan consists of a simple rectangle and it has a single storey. At the front of the chapel is a central doorway between two sash window

Sash window

A sash window or hung sash window is made of one or more movable panels or "sashes" that form a frame to hold panes of glass, which are often separated from other panes by narrow muntins...

s. At the rear are two windows, one is a sash window, and the other is fixed. The interior has plaster

Plaster

Plaster is a building material used for coating walls and ceilings. Plaster starts as a dry powder similar to mortar or cement and like those materials it is mixed with water to form a paste which liberates heat and then hardens. Unlike mortar and cement, plaster remains quite soft after setting,...

ed walls. The ramped

Inclined plane

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 box pew

Box pew

Box pew is a type of church pew that is encased in panelling and was prevalent in England and other Protestant countries from the 16th to early 19th century.-History in England:...

s are original, as are the benches in the area once occupied by the musicians and choir. The chapel "survives as the most complete early plan arrangement of its date".