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Methodist church, formerly known as Camborne Wesley chapel. 1828, altered in 1911. Granite ashlar facade, with sides and rear of uncoursed killas rubble (south side rendered); slate roof. Rectangular plan on east- west axis, gable to road. Classical style. Two storeys and 5 bays, symmetrical, with a pediment over the 3 centre bays, and banded corner pilasters. At ground floor the original porch has been extended to make a continuous portico with a 3-bay arcaded centre formed by 2 pairs of fluted Doric columns in antis (the original porch) protecting 3 round-headed doorways with panelled double doors and semicircular fanlight tracery, and enclosed gallery entrances with round-headed windows in the outer bays, all under a plain frieze and moulded cornice; the 1st floor has 5 round- headed windows, those in the 3-bay centre (which breaks forward slightly) linked by an impost band; all the windows have early C20 joinery with a hooped centre and margin panes; the facade is finished with a band, a deep frieze with 3 raised panels in the centre and ramped ends, moulded cornice and pediment. The windows of the 5-bay side walls are square- headed at ground floor and round-headed above. Rear extension including school, not of special interest. Interior: horse-shoe gallery supported on iron columns with stiff-leaf capitals, with mahogany panelled front; fluted Corinthian pilasters to basket-arched apse (formerly orchestra, now choir gallery); former 'City Road' arrangement of communion rail behind pulpit replaced by C20 rostrum with communion rail in front. References: J.C.C.Probert The Architecture of Cornish Methodism (1966); Thomas Shaw A History of Cornish Methodism (1967).