Elim Pentecostal Church and Attached Gate

ELIM PENTECOSTAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED GATE, MILFORD STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243577
Date first listed:
04-May-1989
List Entry Name:
Elim Pentecostal Church and Attached Gate
Statutory Address:
ELIM PENTECOSTAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED GATE, MILFORD STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1243577
Date first listed:
04-May-1989
List Entry Name:
Elim Pentecostal Church and Attached Gate
Statutory Address 1:
ELIM PENTECOSTAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED GATE, MILFORD 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ELIM PENTECOSTAL CHURCH AND ATTACHED GATE, MILFORD STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Salisbury
National Grid Reference:
SU 14679 29920

Details

SU 1429 NE
4/525


SALISBURY
MILFORD STREET (south side) Elim Pentecostal Church and attached gate


GII
Methodist church,now Elim Pentecostal Church and attached gate.1896.Red brick with terracotta and ashlar dressings,part painted;Welsh slate roof;iron gate.Two-storey street elevation;4 x 7 bays (1:5:1),gable end to street,having single-storey one-bay deep entrance vestibule at north end,U-shaped raking gallery to body of church and one-bay organ chamber at south end flanked by lower service rooms.Street (entrance) elevation:-one:two:one bays,central bays taller and pedimented with paired doorways in projecting surround.Windows have leaded glazing and coloured glass on first floor. Plinth.Ground floor rusticated below impost string.Stone steps upto panelled double doors with two-pane fanlights,in reveals with keyed archivolts on flowery-capitaled columns.Outer bays have keyed round-arched recesses with round-arched windows in ashlar architraves with bracketed sills.Decorative terracotta spandrels.Cornice. Balustrade over centre bays.First floor:corniced band;ashlar pilasters with decorative capitals between bays.Central bays have paired round-arched windows,each of two arched lights with central colonette and roundel over;keyed archivolts on clustered pilasters;impost band.Outer bays have cross windows in corniced eaved and shouldered architraves.Dentil cornice.Balustrade over outer bays linked by decorative brackets to central corniced pediment which has decorated,dated terracotta panel to tympanum and ball finials.On right, attached gateway has panelled and knob-finialled piers and decorative ironwork to double gate.Returns:front bay projects and is in same style as front; other bays plainer,defined by offset pilaster buttresses and each with tall, round-arched,traceried window with coloured glass,in full-height round-arched recess; continuous hoodmould;moulded eaves.Lower rear bay has paired round-arched lights to organ chamber and four-panel door in lower outshut;stepped dentilled eaves. Interior:entrance vestibule has coloured tile floor,coloured glass to doors and overlights, stairs up to gallery.Body of church:leafy-capitaled iron columns support gallery,the front of which has raised and fielded panels and decorative iron panels.At south end,altar rail on decorative iron support;steps with decorative iron balustrades up to decorative pulpit;choir stalls behind fronted as gallery;proscenium arch with archivolt on plain-capitaled piers flanked by full-height pilasters and paired fluted brackets.Coved coffered ceiling.Original piers; panelled organ case;panelled doors.The church is a significant element in the street and is important in retaining its fine interior.


Listing NGR: SU1467329912

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
447579
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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