UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOMS, FRONT WALL AND GATES

UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOMS, FRONT WALL AND GATES, BOLTON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195171
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOMS, FRONT WALL AND GATES
Statutory Address:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOMS, FRONT WALL AND GATES, BOLTON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1195171
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1993
List Entry Name:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOMS, FRONT WALL AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOMS, FRONT WALL AND GATES, BOLTON STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, INCLUDING SCHOOLROOMS, FRONT WALL AND GATES, BOLTON STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Torbay (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brixham
National Grid Reference:: SX 92418 55843

Details

BRIXHAM

SX9255 BOLTON STREET, Lower Brixham 1946-1/7/133 (East side) 10/01/75 United Reformed Church, including schoolrooms, front wall and gates (Formerly Listed as: BOLTON STREET Congregational Chapel)

GV II

Congregational chapel. 1843-5, restored and altered 1872 and 1908. Schoolrooms probably a mid/late C19 addition. Stone rubble; front of chapel and upper storey of schoolrooms rendered. Slated roofs; schoolrooms hipped to front. Chapel lies at right-angles to street with front lobby flanked by staircases. Original or near-original galleries on 3 sides, later extended behind the pulpit. Behind this is a recess with organ, probably added in 1908. Set forward to right, and linked to the chapel by a lobby, are the schoolrooms. Chapel has a gabled, projecting centre with pointed-arched doorway having a hoodmould. Above it a large round window, also with hoodmould, filled with quatrefoiled tracery. Over it is a very small quatrefoiled window. Flanking the centrepiece are 2 pointed-arched doorways with matching single-light windows above them. The corners are splayed and each contain a similar pointed-arched window. Prominent eaves-cornice on large shaped brackets, across the whole front. Schoolrooms 2-storeyed on a high battered plinth decorated with a single course of red bricks. Each storey has 3 close-set pointed-arched windows at the front, those in ground storey with arches of alternating red and cream brick. A single matching window in left side wall of ground storey. Rounded stone sill-band in ground storey; similar band just above window heads. The buildings stand on a raised terrace with a small garden, also raised, in front of it. Along the street frontage is a rendered retaining-wall surmounted by a simple iron railing (replaced after World War II). In the centre are 2 square gate piers with elaborately scrolled iron gates (probably original). Matching pier at each end of frontage with intermediate pier to right of gates. There was originally a further railing at rear of garden. INTERIOR: galleries are carried on quatrefoil-section iron columns; gallery fronts panelled with diagonal planking; handrail raised on scrolled iron brackets. The pointed-arched side-windows ignore the galleries, as if these were an afterthought. In the upper end at either side, are 2 similar windows, now painted over, with small-paned glazing, the heads with pointed, intersecting arches. Panelled pulpit with open quatrefoils at the top; steps up at either side with patterned iron railings. Organ recess has pointed arch in alternating red and yellow brick. Tie-beam roof-trusses infilled with arcades of 4-centred arches. Schoolrooms plain with row of simple iron columns down centre of ground storey. (Gregory C: Brixham in Devonia: Totnes: 1896-: 52; Kelly's Directories: Directory of Devonshire: 1910-: 106; Kelly's Directories: Directory of Devonshire: 1923-: 107).

Listing NGR: SX9241855843

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Legacy System number:: 383543
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gregory, C, Brixham in Devonia, (1896), 52
'Kellys Directory' in Devonshire, (1910), 106
'Kellys Directory' in Devonshire, (1923), 107

Legal

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