NEW MEETING HOUSE (UNITARIAN)

NEW MEETING HOUSE (UNITARIAN), VICTORIA ROAD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208779
Date first listed:: 11-May-1950
List Entry Name:: NEW MEETING HOUSE (UNITARIAN)
Statutory Address:: NEW MEETING HOUSE (UNITARIAN), VICTORIA ROAD

User submitted image — Uploaded by Dominic Martin This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2002-05-12
Reference:: IOE01/05693/12
Rights:: © Mr R. J Wheeler. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1208779
Date first listed:: 11-May-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Feb-1992
List Entry Name:: NEW MEETING HOUSE (UNITARIAN)
Statutory Address 1:: NEW MEETING HOUSE (UNITARIAN), VICTORIA ROAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: NEW MEETING HOUSE (UNITARIAN), VICTORIA ROAD

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Tamworth (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 20949 04063

Details

TAMWORTH

SK2004SE VICTORIA ROAD 670-1/7/132 (North side) 11/05/50 New Meeting House (Unitarian) (Formerly Listed as: VICTORIA ROAD Unitarian Chapel)

GV II

Presbytarian chapel, now Unitarian meeting house also used by the Royal Naval Association. 1724, with alterations of 1879-80. Chequer brick with pebble-dash front and hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan. Early Georgian style. One storey with 2 tiers of windows; 4-window range. 2 platt bands and top brick cornice. Entrance to left end added c1880, has gabled porch with pointed outer entrance and plank door; inner entrance has plaque above recording erection of chapel. Windows have plaster surrounds and C20 small-paned glazing; 2 to upper left end have C18 cross-casements. Rear retains segmental-headed windows with cross-casements, some with leaded glazing with rectangular quarries. Right return has blocked segmental-headed entrance and some attached C19 headstones to burials in adjoining graveyard. INTERIOR: c1880 wooden screen with 3 pointed arches to east end, with re-sited pulpit of 4 panelled sides with moulded cornice, railings in front incorporate C18 turned balusters; good series of C18 and C19 monuments of the Lakin and Byng families; some remaining panelling c1724 with bolection mouldings. The Tamworth Unitarian congregation was founded in 1690. (M.Saunders, from C.Stell: Information from list of suggestions for listing: 1990-).

Listing NGR: SK2094904063

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 386565
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.