St James's Church Hall
ST JAMES'S CHURCH HALL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275409
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1974
- List Entry Name:
- St James's Church Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ST JAMES'S CHURCH HALL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275409
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- St James's Church Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JAMES'S CHURCH HALL, CHURCH 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.
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:
- ST JAMES'S CHURCH HALL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poole
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 00849 90399
Details
POOLE
SZ0090SE CHURCH STREET 958-1/17/15 (South East side) 28/05/74 St James's Church Hall
II
Formerly known as: St James' Sabbath School CHURCH STREET. Sunday school, now church hall. 1862, altered 1956. Red brick with stone dressings, coloured diaper work, partly rendered, tiled roof. Gothic Revival style. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys; 7-window range. Articulated by full-height buttresses with steep weathered caps, plinth and moulded first-floor cill band with moulded cornice. Shallow 2-centre-arched end entrances with chamfered splayed surrounds, and double doors to right-hand end, open left-hand mid C20 through passage. 2-centre-arched windows with mid-C20 glazing. INTERIOR has a meeting room with coved plaster ceiling and moulded cornice, and a gallery in the S extension with a panelled front on fluted cast-iron columns. HISTORICAL NOTE: founded as the St James' Sabbath School, the Gothic style chosen for the exterior is more characteristic of earlier C19 Commissioners' Gothic than the Ecclesiological Gothic developed from the 1840s. Hit by a Second World War bomb, and subsequently restored. Originally had matching arched doorways at both ends. (Hillier J: A Portfolio of Old Poole: Poole: 1983-: 29).
Listing NGR: SZ0084990399
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412458
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hillier, J, A Portfolio of Old Poole, (1983), 29
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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