Description

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SD31NW
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SOUTHPORT,
DERBY ROAD (North West side),
Arden College

(Formerly listed as Church House, No. 40)

GV II

Formerly known as: Primitive Methodist Sunday School DERBY ROAD.

Primitive Methodist Sunday School, now further education college. Dated 1890 in central gable; altered. By FW Dixon. Accrington brick with sandstone dressings and slate roofs. Eclectic style. Large rectangular plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 9-window range. Windows arranged 2:1:3:1:2. Symmetrical, with the large gabled centre linked to gabled wings by narrow single-window bays with balustraded parapets. The centre has gableted stone pilaster-buttresses to the ground floor, coupled pilasters to the taller upper floor, the outermost surmounted by urns which flank a tall gable with pilasters to a shaped and pedimented centre. The ground floor has large doorways in the outer bays, with overlights, and a pair of windows in the centre with mullioned top lights, beneath which is a foundation stone laid by WP Hartley Esq. 1890 (inscription).The upper floor has a large round-headed window in the centre with a keyed architrave, and wooden mullions and transoms forming 3 tiers of patterned stained glass lights with an unusual small pediment on the centre of the upper transom; rectangular windows in the outer bays with mullioned top lights and raised brick surrounds which have segmental-pedimented panels over them. In the centre of the gable is a wide stone plaque lettered: PRIMITIVE METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL 1890. The gabled wings, each with 2 narrow pilastered bays and a shaped gable, have windows at ground floor like those of the centre and round-headed windows at first floor. Sides and rear are plainer.
INTERIOR: reported to be remodelled.
Forms group with Methodist Church of St Mark to the north (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3426017210

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26659824

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings