Listed Building record MDO15832 - United Reform Church, Millhams Street, Christchurch

Elim Church, originally Congregational chapel of 1866-7, now United Reformed Church, almost certainly by Kemp-Welch and Pinder. Sizeable church of Gothic outline, but mixed Romanesque and Cinquecento detail buff brick with stone dressings. Tall slender steeple, at ritual north-west (actual south-west) corner.

Originally Congregational 1866-7 almost certainly by Kemp-Welch and Pinder. Sizeable church of Gothic outline, but mixed Romanesque and Cinquecento detail buff brick with stone dressings. Tall slender steeple, dominant accent in town' skyline at ritual north-west (actual south-west); round-arched doorway, 2 light Cinquecento window, then group of 3 portholes with 'quasi-tiled' roof of stone to cornice, then recessed belfry stage with triplet round-arched windows under clock; splayed pyramid spire of patterned 2-tone slates, with weathervane finial. Ritual west front with double arched entrance in low gabled porch; pink stone colonnettes foliage capitals vermiculated keystones. 4-light round-arched window over, with tracery of roundels (1 cusped); Lombard frieze to gable, 2 storey side elevations, lower windows with shouldered flat-arched lights under segmental relieving arch and foliage tympanum, upper windows 2-light Cinquecento under cross gables. Roof of patterned two-tone slates. Similar elevation and roof to Sunday Schools and recessed western wing of church. Ornamental iron railing to street boundary of recessed west wing of church. This description is derived from the associated designation record, the validity of which has not been checked.

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Nov 3 2023 12:35PM