Description

SP 08 NE 7/65
5104

LOZELLS STREET
Lozells B19
Methodist Church Hall

(Formerly listed as Former Public Library)

II

1893. Red brick with stone dressings; slate roof. A symmetrical composition
consisting of a gabled centrepiece flanked on either side by a low porch.
The centre piece stands on a high brick podium that incorporates the coursed
stone battered bases of the brick turrets left and right of the gable. The
turrets terminate in typically Arts and Crafts stone cupolas. Beneath the
gable, the reading room window, large and of Palladian type, its divisions
marked by triplets of slender columns without entastis and, above that, a triplet
of arches standing on a stone string course. Richly carved and bracketted
stone eaves cornice. Left and right of this, a lower block in which there
is a single tall arched window. Left and right of this centrepiece, the entrances
up steps within a low porch in which 2 arches with elaborate wrought iron
gates and divided one from another by a short fat column that dies into its
base.

Listing NGR: SP0641089123

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26340748

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)