CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN MARY ELEOUSA

CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN MARY ELEOUSA, DERBY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270854
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN MARY ELEOUSA
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN MARY ELEOUSA, DERBY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1270854
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1995
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN MARY ELEOUSA
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN MARY ELEOUSA, DERBY 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.

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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:: CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN MARY ELEOUSA, DERBY 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 56187 40114

Details

NOTTINGHAM

SK5640SW DERBY ROAD 646-1/12/188 (North side) Church of The Virgin Mary Eleousa

GV II

Congregational church, now Greek Orthodox church. c1880. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Perpendicular Revival style. Nave with clerestory and aisles. The west end, forming the main front, has the major architectural features. EXTERIOR: the west gable is coped and has blind tracery framing a single lancet. Projecting porch with a pair of doors in a pointed arched recess with shafts, under a traceried gable. Above, two 2-light traceried windows in pointed arched openings with shafts. To left, a panelled square turret with gable. To right, a taller square turret with traceried panelled bell stage, cross gable and finial. Returns, single bay, have 2-light clerestory windows. Nave, 4 bays, has shallow buttresses. Shouldered coped east gable with a round window. Clerestory has unusual pointed arched windows, 4 lights, with traceried linked heads. South side has in the west bay a gabled stair turret. On its west side, a doorway with shaped head, and above it, a cross mullioned panel with traceried head and a 3-light window. North aisle, 4 bays, has 2-light windows with trefoil heads. West end has a traceried single lancet. INTERIOR mainly in original form, with decorations and furnishings appropriate to Greek Orthodox worship. These include extensive wall paintings. Main space has a boarded segmental roof with unusual round-arched wooden trusses. Aisles have plain lean-to roofs. East end has a chamfered pointed arch with brick extrados, and above it a traceried panel framing a traceried round window. The arch is filled with a painted panel and screened by a panelled iconostasis. Arcades, 5 bays, have similar arches with octagonal columns and wall shafts. Clerestory has brick segmental arches. At the west end, a raked wooden gallery and 2 patterned stained glass windows. Under the gallery, a central projection with a 3-light traceried window, and on each side, plain doors. Entrance lobby has half-glazed doors with shaped heads. Wooden dogleg stair with traceried balustrade. Fittings include original benches to main space and gallery. Other fittings late C20.

Listing NGR: SK5618740114

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Legacy System number:: 457095
Legacy System:: LBS

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