Building record MDO15422 - Wesleyan Methodist Church, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth
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Summary
Wesley Methodist Church built 1907 to designs of Lawson and Reynolds. Red brick and stone dressings in free Tudor style. Church Hall and Sunday Schools attached to rear. Demolished.
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Full Description
1907, Lawson and Reynolds. Red brick and stone dressings in free Tudor. Symmetrical facade with cross-gables on each side over gallery staircases, each lit on road side by 8-light clerestory strip under eaves. Main gable flanked by sharp triangular projections of diagonally placed buttresses, through which main walls are threaded. Entrance under big triple-chamfered segmental arch, in recessed stone wall with windows; above it group of 5 3-light windows in shape of cross. Diagonally set finial on gable top. Body of church has 3 small cross-gables on each side with 2-light windows in 2 tiers. Polygonal cupola on ridge with leaded spirelet. Polygonal vestries adjoining polygonal hipped-roofed end to nave. Hall and Sunday Schools attached, with round-headed windows in 3 more cross-gables and lunette over narthex and link to church. (1)
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SWX4461 Scheduling record: Department of the Environment. 15-Feb-1994. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994. Vol 768.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred SZ 10435 92461 (42m by 48m) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | SZ19SW |
| Unitary Authority | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Other Statuses/References
- None recorded
Record last edited
Mar 1 2013 12:59PM