1. The Big Update Finding Uses for Cornwall's Historic Chapels JEREMY LAKE AND FRANCIS KELLY, ENGLISH HERITAGE

2. The Settlement Context Little Condurrow close to Wheal Grenville; Port Isaac; Tregona

3. Ponsanooth, St Gluvias

4. Wheal Busy, Chacewater The 1863 Bible Christian chapel at Wheal Busy (grade II*) has one of the most complete and interesting interiors in Cornwall with box pews flanked by areas for free seating.

5. Penrose, St Ervan

6. Guidance The Chapels Assessment Framework suggests simple steps for informing change to all chapels, whether they are listed or not, based upon an understanding of their historic character and significance It is for use by planning officers and applicants, including agents and architects, Historic Chapels in Cornwall provides illustrated guidance on the historic character ands significance of chapels, and the present and future issues for chapel communities. It is aimed for the same audience, but it will also be of interest for those with an interest in the history and character of the county’s landscape and historic buildings, and the character of individual places.

7. Uses (St Dennis, Port Isaac, Cubert, Truro)

8. Condition and Social Context

11. CASE STUDIES

12. Capacity for Change Category 1: Chapels of outstanding significance and limited adaptability for uses other than worship, with fabric and/or furnishings that should be protected from all but the most modest changes. Category 2: Chapels of high significance that could nonetheless tolerate adaptive change if carefully and sympathetically managed. Category 3: Chapels of significance, but with scope for more extensive alteration or adaptation in the interests of securing a sustainable future. Category 4: Chapels of modest architectural or historical significance, whose interiors have already been lost or have scope for serious change to internal volumes and space, while nevertheless retaining their external character as part of Cornwall’s distinctive cultural landscape.

13. Richmond and Tredavoe

14. Newlyn Trinity

15. Case study: Little Trethewey, St Levan

16. Case study: Mousehole

17. Mousehole

19. Case study: St Just

20. St Just

21. Chapel Street, Penzance

22. Case study: Chapel Street, Penzance

23. BRINGING AN INFORMED UNDERSTANDING TO THE DEBATE Along with Anglicanism, Methodism has experienced serious decline throughout the last century and continuing into this. Historic overprovision of chapels remains an issue despite wholesale closures over the last eighty years. EH realises that without adaptation they will wither on the vine – it is not a question of whether to adapt/ work with chapel communities, it is HOW