Unity Church
UNITY CHURCH, MONTPELLIER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292190
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Unity Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITY CHURCH, MONTPELLIER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292190
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Unity Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITY CHURCH, MONTPELLIER 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:
- UNITY CHURCH, MONTPELLIER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 91990 63600
Details
TORQUAY
SX9163 MONTPELLIER ROAD 885-1/18/190 (North side) Unity Church
GV II
Unitarian church. 1912 to the designs of Bridgman and Bridgman. Snecked local grey limestone with freestone dressings; slate roofs. PLAN: Built in two sections with an entrance to the southern section below a tower with belfry. Passageway entrance with chapel to right (south). Northern section entered from an adjacent entrance. Free Gothic style. EXTERIOR: Single storey with 2-stage tower. 3:4:1-window front. Southern block (to the right) buttressed with segmental-headed 3-light windows with trefoil-headed lights. Segmental-headed doorway to lower stage of tower with recessed 2-leaf boarded door with ornamental strap hinges. Doorway flanked by buttresses which extend up the tower and terminate in freestone pinnacles. Tower has an openwork parapet; central pilaster strip and 2 segmental-headed louvred belfry openings. The left-hand block is similar to the right-hand block with similar buttresses and 3-light windows with cusped lights and square heads. Gabled porch block to right with a coped gable with kneelers. Moulded doorway with Tudor-arched head and a 2-leaf boarded door with strap hinges below a fanlight. INTERIOR: 4 collar rafter roof trusses. N end has preacher's gallery fronted with shafts in an Early English style. Described in Pevsner as a "diminutive limestone cathedral for liberal Christianity" (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.852).
Listing NGR: SX9199063600
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390719
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Devon North, (1952), 852
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 852
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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