Somerset Road United Reformed Church and Attached Sunday School
SOMERSET ROAD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, SOMERSET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388284
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Somerset Road United Reformed Church and Attached Sunday School
- Statutory Address:
- SOMERSET ROAD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, SOMERSET ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388284
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Somerset Road United Reformed Church and Attached Sunday School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOMERSET ROAD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, SOMERSET 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:
- SOMERSET ROAD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ATTACHED SUNDAY SCHOOL, SOMERSET ROAD
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:
- SD6972009591
Details
BOLTON
SD60NE SOMERSET ROAD
797-1/3/219 (West side)
Somerset Road United Reformed Church
and attached Sunday School
II
Presbyterian church, now United Reformed church and attached
Sunday School. c1910. Coursed and squared rubble in small
blocks, the dark principal stone contrasted with paler
dressings and some use of ashlar. Red plain tiled roof.
EXTERIOR: at entrance front a decorated arched doorway flanked
by 2-light traceried mullioned windows with 5-light
reticulated traceried window above the door.
Octagonal tower clasping the left hand angle, with embattled
parapet, a band of windows, and louvred bell chamber openings
below the parapet. Formerly surmounted by a spire, removed
c1950. Tower is balanced by canted full-height bay at left
hand angle with high band of windows immediately below eaves,
and these windows, together with those to tower, have stained
glass with simple art-nouveau motifs.
Main body of church divided into 2 bays by buttresses, each
bay with 2-light Decorated windows, also with Art Nouveau
motifs in the glazing. 2-bay shallow transepts each side.
Canted apse (blind) with long raking roof.
INTERIOR: narrow entrance lobby with timber and glazed screen
separating it from the body of the church (screen
re-positioned 1997). Wide span with hammerbeam roof and arched
braced arcade. Triple arched west wall, the central arch
opening to canted apse now occupied by organ, the outer arches
blind. Hall or Sunday School is linked by a corridor range to
the church, and contemporary with it.
Central arched entrance door flanked by foiled 2-light
windows. Wide arched 3-light upper window. 2-window returns,
then an advanced bay each side, adjoining the corridor range
on the inner side, and continuing on the upper side to house
additional room to rear of hall. 2-light mullioned and
transomed windows, some retaining original leaded glazing
similar to that in church.
Listing NGR: SD6972009591
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476284
- 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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