Description

CROSBY

SJ39NW CROSBY ROAD NORTH
778-1/3/30 (East side)
Waterloo United Free Church and
attached church hall

II

Baptist church, with attached church hall. 1910, possibly by
George Baines & Sons. Accrington red brick with buff
terracotta dressings and slate roofs (sides and rear of common
brick with yellow brick bands).
STYLE: Arts and Crafts Gothic.
PLAN: nave with north and south porches, north and south
transepts; linked at rear to church hall which is parallel on
north side.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey gabled facade, symmetrical, with terracotta
chequerwork in the gable and terracotta coping carried up to a
square finial with diagonal spouts, and the porches forming
short side wings. The centre has a shallow porch with diagonal
buttresses terminating in square brattished terracotta
turrets, and a wide segmental-pointed doorway with terracotta
surround including a traceried 3-light overlight and a
strongly-swept gable with mouchette enrichment; and above this
a 2-centred arched traceried 3-light window with cavetto
surround and hoodmould with foliated stops. The porch-wings,
boldly modelled, with terracotta bands and oversailing eaves
on wrought-iron brackets, each have a square-headed doorway in
a terracotta segmental-pointed arch with chamfered surround
and blind multifoil arcading, and above this a pair of narrow
lancets with deep splayed reveals and terracotta cusping in
the heads.
The 2-window 2-storey side walls have 3-light windows on each
floor, those at ground floor segmental-headed and all with
terracotta tracery in the heads; the transepts have 2 similar
windows below a large traceried 3-light window.
The HALL, with side aisles under cat-slide roofs, has a 3-bay
gabled facade in similar style, with a wide central doorway
which combines features of the doorways of the church and a
large 2-centred arched 5-light window, flanked by brick
pilasters with niches.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ3222998407

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548975

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)