Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5639NE NORTH CIRCUS STREET
646-1/19/452 (East side)
12/07/72 Albert Hall

GV II

Methodist church, now a public hall. 1908. By AE Lambert.
Restored and converted 1989. Brick, with buff terracotta front
and hipped slate roof. Baroque Revival style.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical front with attached tower to right.
Rusticated ground floor, first floor sill band, pierced
balustrade. 3 storeys; 5 window range. Windows are mainly
original wooden framed casements and cross casements.
Projecting central bay has a stepped flat gable and inscribed
panel.
First floor, defined by heavily rusticated double pilasters,
has an open pediment containing a cartouche with festoons.
Central aedicule with Ionic columns and broken segmental
pediment, covering 3 windows under a cornice. Ground floor has
4 small windows with voussoirs.
Side bays have single windows with pilaster surrounds, and
open pediments filled with elongated keystones. Above them,
round glazing bar windows with festoons. Round-arched ground
floor recess with keystone, containing 2 double doors with
voussoirs.
Projecting end bays are topped with attic dormers with
round-arched openings under pediments. First floor and second
floor windows have rusticated flanking columns and pediments
filled with elongated keystones. Segment-arched ground floor
openings with keystones and double doors.
Square tower, 3 stages, has rusticated clasping buttresses
topped with domed pinnacles. Round-arched opening with
wrought-iron double gates and overthrow, with a small window
to left and 3 small windows above. Recessed side panels with
cornices and small third stage windows with festoons. Round
turret with ogee dome and finial, and 4 round-arched openings
flanked by Ionic columns carrying segmental pediments.
Right return, brick, has 5 Diocletian windows with pediments
on the transoms.
INTERIOR has double flights of stone stairs with cast-iron
twist balusters. Basement foyer has alabaster wall panels,
enriched cornice and 3 foliage ceiling panels. 2 moulded
panelled doors with eared wooden architraves. Between them, a
round-arched bronze war memorial panel, 1920. Panelled office
with dentillated cornice.
First floor gallery, now the main hall, has a segmental
plaster vault with enriched cross ribs, round rooflights with
stained glass, and latticework ventilators. On each side, an
arcade, 7 bays, with round columns and arches. At the front, a
3-tower organ case, flanked by single stained glass windows.
Plaster panelled rear wall with dentillated cornice, divided
by paired Ionic pilasters into 5 bays. Central single door
with pediment, flanked by double doors. Panelled tympanum
above, divided by 2 paired pilasters. Side passages have
transverse arches and 6 round-arched windows with patterned
stained glass.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 242).

Listing NGR: SK5678239992

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Albert Hall at Wikipedia
• Albert Hall official website
• Wikidata Q4710403

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