Description

NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME

SJ8546SW KING STREET 644-1/9/70 Newcastle Congregational Church

II

Church. 1859, restored 1990. Buff brick striped with broad bands of blue stone dressings. Slate roof. Decorated style. Main range with thin turret to right. Front facing street is dominated by large rose window with stone spokes. Tall stepped projecting buttresses to sides. Below is a triple entrance arcade, the centre supported on pairs of shafts. Hood moulds and mouldings above, the latter rising to points just below the rose window. Further far-projecting buttress to left is balanced by octagonal staircase turret to right with small lancet windows and walls continued into broach spire. Tall 2-light windows to sides with buttresses between. Narrow clerestory of continuous glazing with curving mullions forming an undulating rhythm. INTERIOR not inspected but reported as retaining original fittings, though part screened off.

Listing NGR: SJ8520946223

External Links

• Wikidata Q26491270

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