First Church of Christ Scientist and Sunday School Including Lamp Standards, Railings, Area Wall, Gate Piers and Gates to North
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST AND SUNDAY SCHOOL INCLUDING LAMP STANDARDS, RAILINGS, AREA WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO NORTH, 45A, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387388
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- First Church of Christ Scientist and Sunday School Including Lamp Standards, Railings, Area Wall, Gate Piers and Gates to North
- Statutory Address:
- FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST AND SUNDAY SCHOOL INCLUDING LAMP STANDARDS, RAILINGS, AREA WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO NORTH, 45A, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387388
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- First Church of Christ Scientist and Sunday School Including Lamp Standards, Railings, Area Wall, Gate Piers and Gates to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST AND SUNDAY SCHOOL INCLUDING LAMP STANDARDS, RAILINGS, AREA WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO NORTH, 45A, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
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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:
- FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST AND SUNDAY SCHOOL INCLUDING LAMP STANDARDS, RAILINGS, AREA WALL, GATE PIERS AND GATES TO NORTH, 45A, CHRISTCHURCH 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 10419 91442
Details
SZ 1091 BOURNEMOUTH CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
768/22/10058 Number 45A,
First Church of Christ Scientist
And Sunday School, including
Lamp standards, railings, area
Wall, gate-piers and gates
To North
II
Christian Science church and Sunday School. 1926; by W.J. Dacombe; Sunday school added in 1933 also by Dacombe. Plumb-coloured Flemish bond brick with some vitrified headers and Ham Hill stone dressings. Pantile hipped roof. PLAN: Large rectangular auditorium entered at N end, and with Sunday school added at S end. Neo-Georgian style. EXTERIOR: North front, pedimented centre advanced with tetra style portico in antis with Ionic columns, the entablature broken by a central arch with a keystone. The portico entablature continues around lower bays in angles to left and right, and around the east and west sides where it is broken by round-arch windows, and above, the main entablature is continued. At the back [5] the large 2-storey Sunday school with broad stone bands, stepped parapet and groups of narrow windows. Including wrought-iron lamp standards, railings, area wall, gate-piers and gates in front to north. INTERIOR intact. The walls of the auditorium have broad pilasters, on the east and west walls to the piers alternating with round-arch windows, entablature above and coffered ceiling. Rostrum and two reading desks, one for the reading of the scriptures, one for extracts from Mary Baker Eddy's' Science and Health', Complete raked seating. Large Sunday school at rear, for Christian Scientists did not attend the adult church before the age of 21. A good example of a Christian Science Church, with a particularly fine facade.
SOURCE: Buildings of England [Hampshire], [addendum], p.842.
Listing NGR: SZ1041991442
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- Legacy System number:
- 475344
- Legacy System:
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Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, (1967), 842
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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