Victoria Hall and Victoria Buildings
VICTORIA HALL AND VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 33-45, KNOWSLEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388093
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Hall and Victoria Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA HALL AND VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 33-45, KNOWSLEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388093
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Hall and Victoria Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA HALL AND VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 33-45, KNOWSLEY 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:
- VICTORIA HALL AND VICTORIA BUILDINGS, 33-45, KNOWSLEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71548 09437
Details
BOLTON
SD7109SE KNOWSLEY STREET 797-1/17/136 (West side) 26/04/74 Victoria Hall and Victoria Buildings Nos.33-45 (odd)
GV II
Methodist Mission church and shops. 1898-1900. By Bradshaw and Gass. Red brick and terracotta with stone dressings and slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 2 and 4-window ranges each side of tower over main entrance to Victoria Hall, the flanking bays containing shops. New shop fronts throughout, and renewed canopy over Victoria Hall entrance, though the paired doors with bevelled glass panels are original. Tower has paired first-floor windows with banded shafts; tripartite oriel window over, and pediment carried on volutes above space for clock (now a blind panel). Flanking pilasters of tower are enriched with low relief scroll-work etc. in the upper stage. Triglyph frieze below balustraded parapet with domed, columned pilasters. Octagonal turret-like upper stage with wrought-iron screens to openings, and volutes over angles, surmounted by domed roof. 2-window outer ranges each side have windows set in raised panels; stilted arched heads, with stone incised architraves to first floor, and wrought-iron balconettes to second. Modillion eaves cornice. right-hand range then has additional bay with paired windows to each floor, and then has wide pedimented gable adjoining entrance tower, with tripartite windows on upper floors in stone architraves with wrought-iron balconettes to second floor. right-hand section is built over the River Croal, and is carried on a 2-arched bridge of rusticated stone. Main body of Victoria Hall projects as wing from rear of street range: Entrance hall with tall transomed windows to stairs, then main hall a 3 storey, 3-window range with tripartite windows to first floor, and segmentally arched 4-light mullioned and transomed windows to upper storey. Transomed windows with round arched lights to basement storey. 5-storey service range at west. INTERIOR: entrance passage leads to large entrance hall to rear of shop premises; staircases leading to gallery each side, with tall transomed windows with round arched lights. Hall enriched with wood dado and plaster panelling to walls. Main hall or church opens off this entrance hall: floor slopes down to platform and communion area to west; horse-shoe
gallery round 3 sides, carried on plaster encased columns with enriched Ionic capitals and volutes. Arcading to each side of gallery, and windows with yellow and white stained glass (dated 1900 in west window). Enriched plasterwork, coved and panelled over platform, and with high relief frieze supported by heavy volutes each side. Curved ceiling overall, divided into deep plaster panels. Parapets to gallery also enriched with high relief panels. Seating and platform area renewed. (BOE: Pevsner N: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).
Listing NGR: SD7157109449
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476091
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
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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