Description

1. ELY STREET
(south side)

Christadelphian Hall
NZ 2562 7/127

II

2.
Non-conformist chapel. 1873 by Thomas Southrow of South Shields.
Ashlar and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roof with
coped gables and kneelers, plus single gable stack. Red ashlar
cill bands and ground floor lintel bands, moulded eaves. 2
storey. Ely Street front: 3 bay with projecting single storey
porch. Pedimented centre has 2 round headed doorways with moulded
hoods and eitherside square corner piers with pairs of upper
pilasters with unusual facing and pulvinated frieze, each topped
by a squat obelisk.Set back eitherside are pairs of round headed
windows and concave surrounds. Above central bay has round arch
rising in to the large pediment above, with 3 round headed plain
sashes, the central one broader, with panels below and above a
circular panel. Eitherside single pilasters supporting the arch,
and beyond single and round headed plain sashes with moulded
hoods and imposts. East front: 5 bay, with 5 tall round headed
arches with moulded hoods and continuous moulded impost band.
Within 5 sunken plain sashes below and 5 sunken round headed tall
plain sashes above, with sunken panels below the windows.
Interior: Internal fittings include round ended gallery supported
on iron columns with foliate capitals, gallery has panelled front
with short baluster balustrade; contemporary pews, combined
reading desk, pulpit and organ with flanking side screens; coved
plaster ceiling supported on moulded plaster brackets now hidden
above C20 false ceiling.

Listing NGR: NZ2550062466

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541250

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)