Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 February 2023 to update the name and address, amend the description due to change in building use and reformat the text to current standards

SD80SW
949-1/2/113

BROUGHTON PARK
MONTPELLIER MEWS (south side)
Waterpark Hall (former Congregational Church, latterly United Reformed Church)

(Formerly listed as Former United Reformed Church, MONTPELLIER MEWS, SALFORD, previously listed as United Reformed Church, Upper Park Road)

18/01/80

II*
Congregational church, later United Reformed church, now residential. 1872-74. By SW Dawkes. Coursed and squared rubble with Welsh slate roof laid in scalloped bands with ridge cresting. Decorated style, robustly detailed. Conventional plan with nave, two aisles, transepts, northern vestry and office range, and southeast tower and spire.

EXTERIOR: three-stage tower with foiled windows and paired bell chamber lights with clustered shafts. Angle buttresses with gablets and heavy pinnacles to flying buttresses, and spire with lucarnes. West door beneath tower with polished granite shafts and ball flower decoration to moulded archway beneath steep hoodmould. Paired Decorated lights over. Five-light rose window to south of nave, and paired lancets over trefoiled arched doorway to west aisle. Three three-light windows to aisles. Transepts with angle buttresses, and four-light foiled window. Triple gabled northern range, reading externally like a chancel, but (at time of listing) housing vestries with meeting room over. Blind arcading carried on shafts with foliate capitals to ground floor with some inset lancet windows, continuing round the entire north end. Three lancet windows over in east wall, and ball flower cornice. Five-light rose window to wide central north gable, three-light rose window in right-hand gable. Canted apsidal stair-turret projects from left-hand gable, with raking stone roof in two tiers and cusped hoodmoulds to lancet windows.

INTERIOR: five-bay arcade with clustered red sandstone shafts on high white stone bases, foliate capitals and ball-flower decoration in the deeply moulded arches. Arches to shallow transepts higher and wider. Curved principal roof trusses carrying collar beams spring from foliate corbels. Some wind-bracing over platform. Complex timber vaulting over transepts. Willis organ in west transept (at time of listing). Raised platform to north, with panelled reredos with foliate capitals and trefoiled windows. Five-light Decorated window above, into meeting room, glazed in 1885. Three-light windows from aisles also originally open to meeting hall and subsequently glazed. Southeast bay of arcade partly filled by base of tower, and divided as two-paired trefoiled arches with intermediate pier carrying carved angel beneath quatrefoil panel with foliate decoration. Original seating survived at time of listing. Simple emblematic stained glass throughout, much of it destroyed or damaged at time of listing. Three vestries opening off corridor behind north wall of body of church with meeting room over, originally intended to double as additional space for Sunday services, the windows acting as unglazed screens.

Listing NGR: SD8319602138

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535742

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)