Description

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BOURNEMOUTH

SZ0791 POOLE ROAD, Westbourne
768-0/9/10027 (South side)
West Cliff Baptist Church

II
Baptist church, school and hall. 1891. Red brick with stone window tracery. Tiled gabled
roofs. PLAN: Church aligned N-S with 3-bay aisles, gallery over entrance at the N end and
organ chamber and rostrum in the 'chancel' at the south end. There is provision for galleries
in the aisles, but they were not built. On the west side of the north end there is a linking
range, containing rooms and a staircase to the gallery, attached to a large hall or schoolroom
to the west on a N-S axis. Perpendicular style.
EXTERIOR: North front, church on left has large 6-light Perpendicular 4-centred arch
window over doorway, traceried square panel in gable above, moulded stings and flanking
buttresses and 4-centred arch doorways and staggered windows in flanking lean-to bays.
Linking range to right has small triple 4-centred arch windows and small gables. Gable-end
of hall on right has pair of ground floor windows and triple windows above with brick
hoodmoulds and flanking buttresses. The hall has a wooden clerestorey and an apsidal south
end. The church has 3 cross-gables on either side over the aisles, the centre gable larger, each
with 3 or 5-light 4-centred arch Perpendicular window with brich ribbed panels above.
Splayed comers to chancel with tall integral stacks with diagonal shafts. Over the west end
of nave, a squat brick bellcote, the spire missing. INTERIOR: Fine intact interior. Timber
3-bay arcades, centre bay wider, with 4-centred arches and pierced traceried spandrels. Wide
nave with 7-bay arch-braced timber roof. Moulded brick 2-centred chancel and west gallery
arches. Plastered walls with brick strings and over chancel arch, arcading. Chancel has
galleried organ chamber with organ and rostrum. West gallery has panelled front. Furniture
complete including benches and stained glass in east windows. Hall or schoolroom has low
wooden arcades, clerestorey and unusual scissor-brace type of roof.

Listing NGR: SZ0714591404

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614678

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (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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  Northumberland (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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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)