The Old Meeting House
THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, MILL WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207181
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Meeting House
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, MILL WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207181
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Meeting House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, MILL WALK
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:
- THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, MILL WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Mansfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK5361761140
Details
SK 5361
924-1/5/74
19/12/55
MANSFIELD
MILL WALK
The Old Meeting House
(Formerly Listed as:
MILL WALK
Unitarian Church)
II*
Unitarian church. 1702, with alterations and additions 1870,
1882 and c1930. Coursed rubble and ashlar, with ashlar
dressings and hipped slate roof. C20 concrete porch. Plinth
and quoins to main block.
Square main block, 2 storeys; 4-window range. Front has 4
single-light windows with leaded glazing. Below, 4 tall
single-light transomed windows, the central ones partly
covered by porch. Porch has plinth, cornice and coped parapet.
Rebated central doorway with hood and double doors, flanked by
single narrow windows. At either end, a single window. Each
side of main block has 4 stone mullioned cross casements.
Rear, now chancel, has a moulded round window flanked by
single stone-mullioned cross casements. East side has to right
a hipped projection with a single stone mullioned window, and
a round-arched door in the return angle. Side wall stack.
At the north-west corner, a hipped addition with a C19 board
door flanked to right by a single-light transomed window.
INTERIOR has shallow chancel with 2 moulded round arches on a
square wooden post with moulded capital. Panelled ceiling with
roundels. Single round arch at each end, that to left
containing organ. In the centre, 2 gabled round-headed niches
containing inscribed tablets, surrounded by a wrought-iron
railing and flanked by stained-glass windows, 1892, by Swaine
& Bourne.
Main space has central lengthwise arcade with 3 round arches
springing from the chancel arcade, with similar square wooden
columns. Panelled cross beam ceiling with brackets. Panelled
dado. At the rear, 2 plain round-headed doors with pedimented
wooden doorcases, linked by panelled frieze. Side windows have
stained glass, 3 of the windows by Morris & Co., 1913, 1928
and 1929. Others late C19, early and mid C20.
Porch has plywood panelling and 3-bay ceiling with round
rooflights.
FITTINGS: C18 octagonal oak pulpit with fielded panels, and
C18 Parliament clock by Thomas Haley of Norwich. Late C19
choir stalls and benches.
MEMORIALS: small C19 and C20 tablets, one of them to William
Hollins of Pleasley Vale, a major benefactor of this church,
and manufacturer of Viyella fabric.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 169).
Listing NGR: SK5361761140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391732
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 169
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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