United Reform Church Including Attached Sunday Schools, Railings to West Wing of Church Building
UNITED REFORM CHURCH INCLUDING ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOLS, RAILINGS TO WEST WING OF CHURCH BUILDING, MILLHAMS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110084
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- United Reform Church Including Attached Sunday Schools, Railings to West Wing of Church Building
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORM CHURCH INCLUDING ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOLS, RAILINGS TO WEST WING OF CHURCH BUILDING, MILLHAMS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110084
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- United Reform Church Including Attached Sunday Schools, Railings to West Wing of Church Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORM CHURCH INCLUDING ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOLS, RAILINGS TO WEST WING OF CHURCH BUILDING, MILLHAMS STREET
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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.
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:
- UNITED REFORM CHURCH INCLUDING ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOLS, RAILINGS TO WEST WING OF CHURCH BUILDING, MILLHAMS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Christchurch
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 15853 92832
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 05/11/2014
SZ 1592 1A/56
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MILLHAMS STREET (North East Side), United Reform Church including attached Sunday Schools, Railings to west wing of church building
(Formerly listed as United Reform Church including attached Sunday Schools, Railway to west wing of church building)
22.1.74.
II GV
Originally Congregational 1866-7 almost certainly by Kemp-Welch and Pinder.
Sizeable church of Gothic outline, but mixed Romanesque and Cinquecento detail
buff brick with stone dressings. Tall slender steeple, dominant accent in town'
skyline at ritual north-west (actual south-west); round-arched doorway, 2 light
Cinquecento window, then group of 3 portholes with 'quasi-tiled' roof of stone
to cornice, then recessed belfry stage with triplet round-arched windows under
clock; splayed pyramid spire of patterned 2-tone slates, with weathervane finial.
Ritual west front with double arched entrance in low gabled porch; pink stone
colonnettes foliage capitals vermiculated keystones. 4-light round-arched window
over, with tracery of roundels (1 cusped); Lombard frieze to gable, 2 storey side
elevations, lower windows with shouldered flat-arched lights under segmental
relieving arch and foliage tympanum, upper windows 2-light Cinquecento under cross gables. Roof of patterned two-tone slates. Similar elevation and roof to Sunday Schools and recessed western wing of church. Ornamental iron railing to street boundary of recessed west wing of church.
The United Reform Church with its attached Sunday Schools and graveyards on
both sides of the street forms a group with The Cottage and with Nos 4 and 5.
Listing NGR: SZ1585392832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101552
- 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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