Shirdi Sai Baba Temple

Guildhall, Colton Street, Leicester, LE1 1QB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074754
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1992
List Entry Name:: Shirdi Sai Baba Temple
Statutory Address:: Guildhall, Colton Street, Leicester, LE1 1QB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1074754
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1992
List Entry Name:: Shirdi Sai Baba Temple
Statutory Address 1:: Guildhall, Colton Street, Leicester, LE1 1QB

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Guildhall, Colton Street, Leicester, LE1 1QB

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District:: City of Leicester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 59153 04364

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/05/2018

SK 5904 8/10000 LEICESTER COLTON STREET Guildhall Shirdi Sai Baba Temple

(Formerly listed as Leicestershire Guild for the Disabled, COLTON STREET) II Former hall and workshops for the Leicestershire Guild for the Disabled. In use as an Hindu temple from about 2014. Built 1909, designed in A & T.E. Sawday's office probably by Ralph Bedingfield. Red brick (with some black headers); Swithland slate roof. Principal hall with attached offices and (to rear) the 'Queen Alexandra Industrial Hall' (or workshop).

Single storey with gallery to street giving a two-storeyed front elevation. This has stone coped gable with segmental pedimented finial that extends down to frame small attic window in aedicule. 2:3:2-light first floor windows (lighting gallery) in stone surround, slightly bowed under segmental superordinate stone arch. Massive segmental stone arch to central entrance with one set of three small windows to either side. Rusticated brick pilasters. To right a secondary entrance under swept-down roof. Hall top lit by segmental dormers.

Internally the hall simply detailed; some Art Nouveau glass. Integral wall painting of Christ raising the Crippled Man. Industrial Hall lit by clerestory. An excellent design making use of top lighting on a cramped industrial site. Strong Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau style by a good provincial architectural practice.

Listing NGR: SK5915304364

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Legacy System number:: 188862
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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.