Description

GOSBROOK ROAD
1.
5128
(South Side)
West Memorial Hall
SU 7174 11/494
II
2.
1865-66 by Alfred Waterhouse. Gothic. Red brick former Baptist Free Church,
gable end to street. Stone plinth and dressings. Banded tile roof. Blue
brick bands in gable above and below rose window. Tumbled brick in chimney
to south gable. Blue and red brick herring bone work in tympanum over pair
of lancets to left. The main feature is the right hand bay - this has a hipped
rectangular stair turret to gallery with external stairs on quadrant wall to
base. 4 bay side wall to west with arched passage below buttresses, cogged
eaves cornice, paired lancets, except to 1/2 dormer to north. 1911 extension
to east with central gable, echoes style of north gable. Interior rearranged.
An interesting display of materials.

Listing NGR: SU7147374742

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• West Memorial Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7985884

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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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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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)