Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 CATHERINE STREET, Plymouth 740-1/57/414 (East side) St Andrew's Abbey Hall and Church House Assembly Room

GV II

Church hall and assembly rooms. 1895 on rainwater head. Plymouth limestone rubble with freestone dressings including moulded mid-floor string; steep dry slate roof with coped gable ends and an embattled parapet at the front with a moulded and carved cornice; plain parapet at rear. Perpendicular Gothic style. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys; 1:6-window range. Doorways at far left and right. Moulded 4-centred stilted arch to principal left-hand doorway and relief lettering: ST ANDREW'S ABBEY HALL; tall triple transomed and traceried 3-light principal window above. Other doorway has chamfered rubble jambs, a tudor arch and a Y-traceried fanlight above. The other windows are 2-light and transomed with moulded jambs, the 5 ground-floor windows with Y-traceried heads, the taller 1st floor windows with traceried heads. INTERIOR: suspended ceiling to first floor. Strong group value with Prysten House, Abbey Place (qv) and Church of St Andrew, Catherine Street (qv).



Listing NGR: SX4789554364

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)