Description

1.
5409 KINGSBURY SQUARE
No 5 (Roman Catholic
Church of St Edith)
SU 0931 5/76

II GV

2.
Mid-late C19. Former Methodist Church. Palazzo front to east. 2 storeys,
English bond brick, channelled stucco on ground floor. Heavy Doric entablature
(as parapet to hipped slate roof). Cross glazed sash windows, 5 on 1st
floor with alternate segmental and triangular pediments and scroll bracket
surrounds and flanking pilasters, set on salient plinth with moulded head
over ground floor. Central window has balustered balcony. 4 windows on
ground floor in rectangular recesses. Central Doric doorpiece with ½ columns;
6-panel 2-leaf doors with side lights and 4-pane overlight. This elevational
treatment returned to Kingsbury Square with 2 windows on each floor, 1 blind
window on each floor and plain central bay. Segmental headed doorway to
left and 3 storey extension with overlapped eaves courses and 3 narrow windows.
The interior: plain stairs divide at landing and reach fine 1st floor meeting
room from each end; this room has coved and gilded ceiling cornice and pierced
fretwork panels to balcony on left hand side (above upper flights of staircase).
Former chimney breaks to front and back with niches. Balcony projects on
decorative corbels. Niche on landing contains plaster statue circa 1821
of St Edith, made for Catholic Chapel at Midford Castle near Bath.

Listing NGR: SU0974731173

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26274663

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Recommended Books

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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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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)