KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, GUINEA LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396137
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
Statutory Address:: KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, GUINEA LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1396137
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
Statutory Address 1:: KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, GUINEA LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: KINGDOM HALL OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, GUINEA LANE

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 75010 65442

Details

GUINEA LANE 656-1/0/0 (South side) Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (Formerly Listed as: GUINEA LANE St Mary's Church Hall) 05/08/75

GV II

Catholic Apostolic Church (Irvingite), now Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses. 1841 with C20 alterations. By GP Manners. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar with slate roof. STYLE: Norman Revival style. PLAN: Rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: Corbel tables to gable ends and eaves of nave, machicolation to eaves of chancel and to lead roofed segmental curved apse, on north side in Guinea Lane and encircling plinth. East side of nave has moulded sill string course, impost string and engaged Norman columns with scalloped capitals to three semicircular arched recesses over windows with C20 glass, to left thick rolled arris to semicircular arch over C20 door. Two C20 doors in plinth. To each side of chancel smaller window in coved opening. Apse has higher sill string and weathered sills to three similar smaller windows to those of nave with small quarter Norman columns. Attached to north-west side of nave smaller gabled block with slit to apex of coped gable end and roll moulded surround to semicircular arched window below. At junction of two blocks shouldered arch to C20 door. North side has corbel table below parapet. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: The Church was built by the Irvingites and used by them until the 1860s. It later became St. Mary's Roman Catholic Hall until it became the Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses in 1976. SOURCES: (Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1660-1840: London: 1978-: 537 Stell C: Non-Conformist Chapels & Meeting Houses of South-West England: Norwich: 1993-: 12).

Listing NGR: ST7501065442

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Legacy System number:: 511548
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.