The lost Trevillick Old Chapel or St
Nun's Chapel is marked on 1889 maps, lying to the north of
Grampound and Trevillick itself where Pepo Lane branches to the
right, about three hundred metres north of the junction. Dedicated
to St Non or Nonita or Naunter, the chapel and holy well were visited
by pilgrims until the Reformation. By 1730, both were in ruins. Today
nothing remains, but a small arch inscribed 'found at St Naunter' is
built into a barn at Trevillick Farm.
Further north from Trevillick (above) along the
same road is Trenowth Mill and railway viaduct. Immediately beyond
that was Trenowth Chapel, on a point of high rocks known as
Chapel Rock in Trenowth Woods. This was part of the estate of
Trenowth House. Trenowth was first recorded in AD 969 as Trefneweth,
meaning 'new farm'. Marked on old maps as Holy Trinity and
St Mary's Chapel, the now-inaccessible medieval chapel is
also mentioned in the Magna Britannica.
Coombe Wesleyan Methodist Chapel lies on
the outside corner of Coombe Hill as it passes under the railway,
turning right towards Coombe itself (also known as St Stephen's Coombe).
Marked on old maps as a Wesleyan Methodist chapel, it is now a Grade
2 listed building. An inscription says 'Dated 1859; enlarged 1890'.
Planning was approved in 1996 to convert it into a studio dwelling.
It is unclear how this Methodist chapel was related to the other in
Coombe (below).
There is evidence of Methodism in Coombe in the
1770s with accounts of the first chapel being built in 1783. The
first building was likely replaced by the current one, in existence
by 1829 and with a date stone which says 1833. It served a Wesleyan
congregation until 1932 and then as Coombe United Methodist
Chapel. It lies on the left-hand side of the road through Coombe,
about ninety metres east of the St Stephens junction, and is now a
private residence.
Paramore Bible Christian Chapel can be found
at Commerce Common, on a narrow lane which leads from Lower Sticker. In
1830, a small cob-walled chapel was built down the road (below), being
replaced by this one in September 1860. It became Paramore (United)
Methodist Church (most likely in 1932), with renovation in 1970,
and a one hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 1986. It closed in 1993,
and there are papers relating to its sale between 1992 and 1996.
From Commerce Common return south to the
junction and turn left. Around 150 metres later is this entrance
to Penstrassoe Barton. A Bible Christian society began in the
Lower Sticker area in 1820. Members originally met at Penstrassoe
Farmhouse but, by 1830, they needed their own chapel so they built
their cob-walled Penstrassoe Barton Bible Christian Chapel
here, at the entrance to Penstrassoe Barton. This was replaced by
the new chapel (above) in 1860.
