Description

1. WEST HILL ROAD
5186 (East Side)
Unitarian Church
SZ 09SE 12/93

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Unitarian Church. c1890. Red brick with cream limestone dressings, concrete
tile roof. A two storey main body with central gables flush with wall,
this all away from street, and to street a semi-hexagonal body, plus, right and
almost free-standing, a hexagonal tower, all in a free Gothic interpretation
with C14 and C15 details. Church has two 3-light perpendicular style windows
under brick arches, that to left under rich pierced parapet, and centrally under
coped gable, each with paired brick capped turrets; the main windows are over
cross-mullioned openings at basement, behind which are wood sashes. Very slender
tower stands on base with pair of plank doors in 4-centre brick arch under slight
ogee stone drip and a rich pierced parapet; above this heavy stone weathered
course at base of very lofty lancets with flamboyant tracery, separated by brick
buttresses capped with stone saddle copings,under a stage with trefoil openings
in circular lights with stone voussoirs at diagonal points; parapet with semi-
circular sinkings at centre points, all crowned with pinnacles and stone spouts.
Side elevations relatively austere, with three 2-light stone mullioned, transomed
and traceried windows, the central one under a gable; at lower level paired
sashes; and at back a storey domestic extension. Interior not inspected, but
lower hall has original steel transverse beams with curved tee-section supports
riveted on. A very rich mannerist interpretation of mediaeval items coupled
with imaginative freestyle touches.

Listing NGR: SZ0821890929

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26566195

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)