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Former Unitarian Chapel

A Grade II Listed Building in Nottingham, City of Nottingham

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Latitude: 52.9509 / 52°57'3"N

Longitude: -1.1453 / 1°8'43"W

OS Eastings: 457521

OS Northings: 339618

OS Grid: SK575396

Mapcode National: GBR LQQ.5B

Mapcode Global: WHDGZ.C3V3

Plus Code: 9C4WXV23+8V

Entry Name: Former Unitarian Chapel

Listing Date: 12 July 1972

Last Amended: 30 November 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1247635

English Heritage Legacy ID: 457253

ID on this website: 101247635

Location: Lace Market, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, NG1

County: City of Nottingham

Electoral Ward/Division: Bridge

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Nottingham

Traditional County: Nottinghamshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Nottinghamshire

Church of England Parish: Nottingham St Peter with St James

Church of England Diocese: Southwell and Nottingham

Tagged with: Redundant church Chapel

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/08/2015


SK5739NE
646-1/21/274

NOTTINGHAM,
HIGH PAVEMENT (South side),
Former Unitarian Chapel


(Formerly listed as Lace Hall, HIGH PAVEMENT.

Previously listed as Unitarian Chapel, HIGH PAVEMENT)

12/07/72

GV II

Unitarian chapel, later lace industry museum and exhibition
centre. 1876. By Stuart Colman of Bristol. Converted 1989.
Rockfaced stone, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic
Revival style.
PLAN: symmetrical plan, with chancel, vestry, nave and
clerestory, transepts, aisles, and west tower with spire.
EXTERIOR: plinth, sill bands, string courses, coped gables.
West end gables have angle buttresses. Windows have pointed
arches; the main windows have hood moulds.
Chancel, single bay, has a 2-light window and small vestry to
south. Large traceried east window, 7-lights. Clerestory has
on each side 3 graduated triple lancets set in relieving
arches with polychrome brickwork heads. At the west end, a
single lancet. Transepts have a 4-light window in each gable.
Aisles have 3 plain double lancets, and at the west end, a
3-light window with a triple opening above.
West tower, 3 stages, has angle buttresses topped with spire
pinnacles. Enriched west doorway, and above it a traceried
blind arcade. Upper stage has a tall single lancet on each
side, and to west, a patterned gable with a traceried round
window. Bell stage has on each side, 2 pointed arched double
openings. Above, an octagonal turret with 4 pointed arched
openings, topped with an octagonal spire.
INTERIOR: rendered, has a late C20 mezzanine floor, exhibition
rooms and showcases. Chancel has an arch with responds and a
panelled pointed arched roof. Stained glass east window 1904,
by Morris & Co., to designs by Burne-Jones and JH Dearle.
South side has an arch containing a stone screen.
Nave has similar roof, with wall shafts detached from the
piers. Arcades, 3 bays, have round piers and various arches
with hood moulds. Tall tower arch set between square
buttresses, with a stone screen containing a pointed arched
door under a gable. On either side, a narrow arch with a
doorway. Double west door with central pier.
Transepts have moulded arches with responds, and wagon roofs.
North transept north window 1890, by H Enfield, east window
late C19. South transept has a stained glass south window,
late C19, and to east an arch with a wooden organ gallery.
Aisles have king post roofs, and arches at each end. North
aisle has war memorial window, 1925, by Kempe & Co., stained
glass window, 1905, and Sunday School memorial window, 1906,
by H Holiday. South aisle has stained glass windows late C19
and c1931.
Fittings include a rectangular ashlar pulpit with blind arcade
and alabaster shafts.
Memorials include a round-arched blind arcaded panel with
names of ministers.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 224-225).


Listing NGR: SK5752139618

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