Premises Occupied By Tramps Night Club
PREMISES OCCUPIED BY TRAMPS NIGHT CLUB, ANGEL PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359634
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Premises Occupied By Tramps Night Club
- Statutory Address:
- PREMISES OCCUPIED BY TRAMPS NIGHT CLUB, ANGEL PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1359634
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Premises Occupied By Tramps Night Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- PREMISES OCCUPIED BY TRAMPS NIGHT CLUB, ANGEL PLACE
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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:
- PREMISES OCCUPIED BY TRAMPS NIGHT CLUB, ANGEL PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84827 55082
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455SE ANGEL PLACE
620-1/12/18 (West side)
05/04/71 Premises occupied by
Tramps night Club
(Formerly Listed as:
ANGEL PLACE
(East side)
Congregational Church)
GV II
Congregationalist church, now discotheque. 1858, with
conversion to nightclub c1980-1990. Architects probably
Poulton and Woodman. Cotswold stone ashlar over brick with
pinkish-red brick to rear; pyramidal slate roof with finial
and right stack with cornice and pots. Rectangular on plan
with apse, in Classical style. Single tall storey, described
to front facade as 2 storeys, 3 bays with outer wings. Facade
is stepped twice with central break forward. Central bowed
tetrastyle Corinthian portico with Doric pilasters to
responds, surmounted by pediment with acroteria. Columns stand
on tall plinth interrupted by flight of horseshoe steps to
central entrance, 12-panel double doors with panelled
overlight in Caernarvon-arched surround with cornice on
scrolled corbel brackets; continuous band over with panels
with lozenge motif below round-arched windows with circular
glazing bars, with imposts, architraves and keystones. Outer
bays: large piers with pyramidal caps to street frontage and
flights of steps to 6-panel doors with blind fanlights in
tooled architraves with keystone, pulvinated frieze and
cornice surmounted by balustrade with bulbous balusters. To
upper stage are round-arched windows with imposts, architraves
and keystones. Wings have Caernarvon-arched openings, that to
left with 4-panel door, that to right a replacement door,
panels over. Continuous cornice with acanthus modillions,
parapet with cornice.
INTERIOR: apse has 2 Corinthian columns in antis with pilaster
reveals; trefoil pulpit. Bowed balcony with ornate cast-iron
railings, on brackets; balcony retains benches. Ceiling has
central dome and ribs on corbels.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a distinguished example of Nonconformist
church architecture in robust classical style.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 332; Royal Commission on the
Historical Monuments of England: Nonconformist Chapels &
Meeting Houses(Hfds., Worcs. & Warwicks.: 1986-: 256-257).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488484
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 256-7
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 332
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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