Woodborough Road Islamic Social Centre
WOODBOROUGH ROAD ISLAMIC SOCIAL CENTRE, WOODBOROUGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255289
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Woodborough Road Islamic Social Centre
- Statutory Address:
- WOODBOROUGH ROAD ISLAMIC SOCIAL CENTRE, WOODBOROUGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255289
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Woodborough Road Islamic Social Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODBOROUGH ROAD ISLAMIC SOCIAL CENTRE, WOODBOROUGH ROAD
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:
- WOODBOROUGH ROAD ISLAMIC SOCIAL CENTRE, WOODBOROUGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 57458 40919
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5740NW WOODBOROUGH ROAD 646-1/11/765 (North West side) 19/04/78 Woodborough Road Islamic Social Centre (Formerly Listed as: WOODBOROUGH ROAD Woodborough Road Baptist Church)
II
Baptist church, now Islamic social centre. 1893. By Watson Fothergill of Nottingham. Converted c1980. Red brick, with rock-faced stone basement, blue brick, red brick and ashlar dressings, gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. Tall coped corner stack. Idiosyncratic Romanesque style. EXTERIOR: plinth, polychrome bands and string courses, bays divided by shallow pilasters. Main body with basement, clerestory and apse, aisles, cross wings, north-east tower. Main body, 6 bays, has at the east end 4 segment-arched basement openings, and above, 4 cross casements. Above again, 4 tall round-arched windows. Clerestory has six 3-light round-arched windows on each side. North aisle has an arcaded basement with 6 segment-arched openings. Above, 5 shouldered windows, 2 lights. Above again, 5 cusped round windows in round-arched recesses. At the east end, a pent-roofed porch and stair enclosure with 2 doorways and a truncated round-arched window, 3 lights. Above, 3 small round-arched stair windows, stepped. Gabled cross wing, to north-west, has 2 segment-arched basement openings, and above, a 2-light shouldered window. Above again, a graduated triple window with round arches. North east tower, octagonal, 3 stages, with hipped roof and cast-iron crest. Basement level has a double doorway with ringed granite shafts and blank fanlights under gables. To left, a small round-arched window under a similar gable. Above, 2 flat-headed windows. Bell stage has a hipped canopy on each side, with clock dials. INTERIOR: red brick with blue and buff brick dressings, has rendered aisles and east and west ends. Arch braced roof to main space, with corbels and stencilled ceiling. East end has a recess with polychrome round head carried on cast-iron columns. Barrel vaulted recess, flanked by angled cross casement windows, has a glazed tile band. Main space has arcades with 5 polychrome round arches on round cast-iron columns with elaborate capitals. Aisles have lean-to roof and galleries with renewed panelling to fronts. West end has an arch braced apse, containing a panelled gallery. Under the gallery, a glazed wooden screen forming offices. Basement, carried on cast-iron columns, subdivided late C20. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 262; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 11).
Listing NGR: SK5745840919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459123
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 262
Brand, K, Get To Know Nottingham in Watson Fothergill Architect, (1987), 11
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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