First Church of Christ Scientist, With Forecourt and Balustrades
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST, WITH FORECOURT AND BALUSTRADES, CLAVERTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394563
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- First Church of Christ Scientist, With Forecourt and Balustrades
- Statutory Address:
- FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST, WITH FORECOURT AND BALUSTRADES, CLAVERTON STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1394563
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- First Church of Christ Scientist, With Forecourt and Balustrades
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST, WITH FORECOURT AND BALUSTRADES, CLAVERTON 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:
- FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST, WITH FORECOURT AND BALUSTRADES, CLAVERTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75252 64225
Details
CLAVERTON STREET (South side) First Church of Christ Scientist, with forecourt and balustrades (Formerly Listed as: CLAVERTON STREET Church of the Nazarene) 11/08/72
GV II
Temperance Hall now Christian Science Church. Dated 1847. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roofs. PLAN: Small single cell trapezoidal building, set to narrow site with complex levels. EXTERIOR: Main floor raised on lower ground floor, entered at narrow pedimented end by set of steps to small triangular forecourt. Four Doric pilasters carry full entablature, returned to long sides, and moulded closed pediment with central blocking with sunk panel and capping. Frieze inscribed `TEMPERANCE HALL A.D.1847'. Central pair of panelled doors in moulded architrave with segmental pediment, single step continued as plinth. South front, to St Mark's Road, three bays, with identical flat pilasters, and twelve-pane sashes in moulded architraves, and sills on brackets. Slight plinth dies to pavement, left. North front, to Claverton Street, identical, has lower floor with channelled ashlar to broad platband, with two small twelve-pane sashes and central panelled door with transom light and moulded architrave. Small plinth dies to pavement to left. West end, wider than entrance front, plain, with end pilasters, and broad pediment with wide blocking course. Forecourt contained by pierced balustrade in three panels to four square piers, whole coped, with blockings to piers. Offset plinth in plain ashlar, returned to entrance. Small spear head iron gate with bold scrolled overthrow, with broad pier to left and narrow to right. Gate gives to seven square edged steps in flanking ashlar walls rising to stone paved forecourt. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: The building was used by the `International Order of Good Templars¿ and the `Independent Order of Rechabites (Temperance Friendly Society), two manifestations of the Nonconformist Temperance Movement then beginning to get underway. In 1963 it became the `Church of the Nazarene¿, eventually being adapted to become the First Church of Christ Scientist in 1991. SOURCE: M. Scott, Discovering Widcombe & Lyncombe (2nd ed 1993), 48.
Listing NGR: ST7525264225
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 509959
- 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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