Moravian Sunday School
MORAVIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201680
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Moravian Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- MORAVIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201680
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Moravian Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORAVIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL, MAIN STREET
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:
- MORAVIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD9136005209
Details
SD90SW
780-1/3/53
OLDHAM
MAIN STREET
(West side)
Moravian Sunday School
II
Moravian Sunday School. Dated 1906. By CT Taylor, architect.
Brick with white terracotta dressings and hipped Welsh slate
roof. Single storey, bold Baroque facade to Main Street 3
bays, with central entrance and advanced outer towers,
Entrance in lean-to porch between the towers, with banded
Ionic pilasters flanking doorway and oval windows each side,
all in white terracotta band above brick plinth. Moulded
terracotta frieze above with inscription and date, and cornice
above. Large lunette window with terracotta architrave,
voussoirs and cornice above, in red brick upper storey over
the porch. Angle towers also banded brick and terracotta, with
square windows in terracotta band to ground floor, with
stressed moulded architrave. The terracotta band intself is
stressed with rusticated bands. Central pilasters in brick
band above, with terracotta cornice with central cartouche
above, and moulded parapet, scooped out in centre. Return
elevation to right has alternate segmental and tall
round-arched windows in gabled dormers.
(Ivor Packer: The Moravian Church, Westwood 1865-1965:
Westwood: 1965-).
Listing NGR: SD 91360 05209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388916
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Packer, I, The Moravian Church, Westwood 1865-1965, (1965)
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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