ALBERT HALL

ALBERT HALL, NORTH CIRCUS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270608
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:: ALBERT HALL
Statutory Address:: ALBERT HALL, NORTH CIRCUS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270608
Date first listed:: 12-Jul-1972
List Entry Name:: ALBERT HALL
Statutory Address 1:: ALBERT HALL, NORTH CIRCUS STREET

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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ALBERT HALL, NORTH CIRCUS STREET

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 56782 39992

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NE NORTH CIRCUS STREET 646-1/19/452 (East side) 12/07/72 Albert Hall

GV II

Methodist church, now a public hall. 1908. By AE Lambert. Restored and converted 1989. Brick, with buff terracotta front and hipped slate roof. Baroque Revival style. EXTERIOR: symmetrical front with attached tower to right. Rusticated ground floor, first floor sill band, pierced balustrade. 3 storeys; 5 window range. Windows are mainly original wooden framed casements and cross casements. Projecting central bay has a stepped flat gable and inscribed panel. First floor, defined by heavily rusticated double pilasters, has an open pediment containing a cartouche with festoons. Central aedicule with Ionic columns and broken segmental pediment, covering 3 windows under a cornice. Ground floor has 4 small windows with voussoirs. Side bays have single windows with pilaster surrounds, and open pediments filled with elongated keystones. Above them, round glazing bar windows with festoons. Round-arched ground floor recess with keystone, containing 2 double doors with voussoirs. Projecting end bays are topped with attic dormers with round-arched openings under pediments. First floor and second floor windows have rusticated flanking columns and pediments filled with elongated keystones. Segment-arched ground floor openings with keystones and double doors. Square tower, 3 stages, has rusticated clasping buttresses topped with domed pinnacles. Round-arched opening with wrought-iron double gates and overthrow, with a small window to left and 3 small windows above. Recessed side panels with cornices and small third stage windows with festoons. Round turret with ogee dome and finial, and 4 round-arched openings flanked by Ionic columns carrying segmental pediments. Right return, brick, has 5 Diocletian windows with pediments on the transoms. INTERIOR has double flights of stone stairs with cast-iron twist balusters. Basement foyer has alabaster wall panels, enriched cornice and 3 foliage ceiling panels. 2 moulded panelled doors with eared wooden architraves. Between them, a round-arched bronze war memorial panel, 1920. Panelled office with dentillated cornice. First floor gallery, now the main hall, has a segmental plaster vault with enriched cross ribs, round rooflights with stained glass, and latticework ventilators. On each side, an arcade, 7 bays, with round columns and arches. At the front, a 3-tower organ case, flanked by single stained glass windows. Plaster panelled rear wall with dentillated cornice, divided by paired Ionic pilasters into 5 bays. Central single door with pediment, flanked by double doors. Panelled tympanum above, divided by 2 paired pilasters. Side passages have transverse arches and 6 round-arched windows with patterned stained glass. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 242).

Listing NGR: SK5678239992

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

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

Legacy System number:: 457961
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 242
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/68037

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.