Cornwall Live can report that Crafthole Methodist Church in Crafthole has been put on the market for £85,000 after the Methodist Church said its congregation had dwindled. The 1867 building has served the village since 1795, and the sale now puts a worship site and community room into the property market.
The church has two main levels: the worship space and a lower room known as the schoolroom. That room was used for Sunday school, church clubs and societies, and table tennis matches, while a toilet and kitchen were added in 1983. Two coloured glass windows went in behind the pulpit in 1988, and further alterations between January and April 2002 added internal access between the levels and stair-lifts for disabled users.
Scott Parry Associates and Crafthole
Scott Parry Associates is marketing the 2,105 sq ft building as a detached former Methodist church with “potential for alternative uses subject to any consents that may be required”. It also describes the site as “centrally located within the prized village setting of Crafthole on the beautifully unspoilt coastal hinterland of Whitsand Bay and the Rame Peninsula”.
The property is not listed. Portwrinkle is 0.75 mile away, Antony is two miles away, and the South West Coastal Path can be reached about 800 metres south of the building.
Sheviock Parish Council
Sheviock Parish Council said, “It is generally agreed that the Church provides a Christian witness in the area and plays an important part in village life in addition to providing a venue for worship, despite a small Church membership.” That leaves the village with a building that remains important locally, even as the Methodist Church has moved it toward sale.
The Rame Peninsula is described by Scott Parry Associates as relatively little known and as part of the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. For Crafthole, the immediate question is not the history of the building but who will take it on next, and whether it stays tied to worship or shifts to another permitted use.
