East Cliff United Reform Church and Attached Sunday School/lecture Hall
EAST CLIFF UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL/LECTURE HALL, HOLDENHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324771
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- East Cliff United Reform Church and Attached Sunday School/lecture Hall
- Statutory Address:
- EAST CLIFF UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL/LECTURE HALL, HOLDENHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324771
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- East Cliff United Reform Church and Attached Sunday School/lecture Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST CLIFF UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL/LECTURE HALL, HOLDENHURST ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- EAST CLIFF UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL/LECTURE HALL, HOLDENHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournemouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 09844 91797
Details
2. HOLDENHURST ROAD SZ 0991 20/189 (South-east side) East Cliff United Reform II Church and attached Sunday School/Lecture Hall
Congregational, now United Reformed Church, with attached former Sunday School/ Lecture Hall (now flat). 1878-9 Kemp Welch and Pinder; additions of 1889-91 by Lawson and Donkin. Grey-buff brick with stone dressings; C20 concrete tile roof. 5-bay Church with south aisle, north-west tower and west porch; added cross-wing at east end incorporating added apse; further east another added cross-wing, wider, with former Sunday School on ground floor and Lecture Hall (now flat) above. In Romanesque-cum-Cinquecento style. Cinquecento windows under hoodmoulds, those on north and south elevations full-height with thick transoms at gallery level; lombard friezes to gables, Church west end has gabled porch with pair of round-arched doorways under relieving arch, 2 cinquecento windows and wheel window above; projecting gabled south aisle on right has subsidiary porch with window over. North-west tower has similar windows and Romanesque intersecting arcading; clock stage; recessed timber polygonal cupola with added leaded dome. Interior: fine contemporary interior has U-shaped gallery on scallop-capitalled columns with leaf-decorated S-section balustrade and secondary gallery across north-east angle filled with later coloured glass; triple-columned arch to apse which has round-arched arcade, ribbed semi-dome and circular top-light; decorative bressumer below organ pipes; fine timber roof trusses with posts and braces forming series of arches with cusping in spandrels; panelled pews; early C20 coloured glass to windows.
A Minister's house formerly adjoined the east end of the building, but this was demolished c1985.
Listing NGR: SZ0984491797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101925
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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