Pokesdown United Reformed Church and Sunday School
POKESDOWN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, SOUTHBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108824
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Pokesdown United Reformed Church and Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- POKESDOWN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, SOUTHBOURNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108824
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Pokesdown United Reformed Church and Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- POKESDOWN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, SOUTHBOURNE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- POKESDOWN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, SOUTHBOURNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournemouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 12803 92368
Details
1. 5186 SOUTHBOURNE ROAD (South West Side) Pokesdown United Reformed Church and Sunday School SZ 1292 30/262
II
2. Formerly Congregational, built 1820, rebuilt 1895-6 echoing Regency style. Red brick with stucco and buff brick dressings. Pedimented front with giant Ionic columns between antae supporting entablature, tall windows in shouldered stucco frames carried up as relieving arches. Hipped annexes with pilaster-strip quoins and eaves cornice of grey brick, containing stucco doorways with bulgy frieze and cornice and paired round-arched windows with red terracotta hoodmoulds and sills. Flanks have lean-to aisles with similar pilaster strips, eaves and round-arched windows, continuous clerestory strip with arched glazing bars. Attached hall at rear with some stucco pilasters and hoodmoulds to north, gabled porch to south. Set in old graveyard.
Listing NGR: SZ1280392368
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101849
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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