Description

NZ 15 SE STANLEY SOUTH MOOR ROAD
(West side)
South Moor
7/192 Former Miner's Hall
and Institute
GV II
Miners' Hall and Institute; now private function suites. Dated 1898 over door.
Snecked sandstone, with brick returns and rear; ashlar dressings; Welsh slate
roof with stone gable coping and brick chimney; lead-covered porch roof.
Chapel style. Gabled front to street 2 storeys, 3 bays, the central wider.
Gabled porch with steps up to central flushed double doors in moulded, round-
headed surround under open pediment and inscription MINERS HALL 1898; quadrant
porch returns have blocked round-headed windows on both floors except for
6-panel door at right on ground floor. Porch entablature, with pulvinated
frieze continuous with pediment bed; 2 paired blocked round-headed windows
above porch flank central lesene with ball finial; similar finials on pinnacles
of pilasters rising from entablature of porch. Round-headed blocked windows in
outer bays. Rear gable chimney. 7-bay returns, the right with central 6-panel
door in stone surround with open segmental pediment; panel with low-relief
INSTITUTE, and small raised segmental pediment above; round-headed brick-
arched windows, blocked except for 4 first-floor left-return stained glass
windows.
Included for historical and social interest.

Listing NGR: NZ1903551524

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551771

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)