Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW HALL STREET
770-1/6/76 (South side)
22/02/73 Congregational Church and Sunday
School

GV II

Congregational Church, now United Reformed Church, with school
attached. Church dated 1836, with 1978 internal alterations;
school mid C19. Coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and
dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and
chimney. Ritual east at south. Nave with west lobby, east
vestry and school attached.
EXTERIOR: gabled front to Hall Street has central wide double
6-panel door and semicircular overlight with intersecting
glazing bars recessed in tooled projecting stone surround with
impost blocks and keystone. Flat stone lintels and projecting
stone sills to flanking 30-pane stair sashes with glazing
bars; similar window above. Oval stone date panel in gable has
well-cut letters - figure 1 missing. Roof has gable coping on
moulded kneelers, and small rear chimney.
Elevation to Queen Street has 2 similar sashes to ground floor
and 2 to gallery.
Rear school extension of one storey; 2 similar windows in
gable to Queen Street with moulded gable kneelers and corniced
ridge chimney.
INTERIOR: stairs at each side of entrance lobby; nave with
blocked gallery on 3 sides; east pulpit. Curved gallery has
reeded pilasters to panelled parapet and is supported on
cast-iron pillars. Ceiling altered to rest on gallery parapet
and form a keeled shape. Pulpit raised on boarded platform
with blind Y-tracery in wooden east arcade. Handrail mostly
renewed on renewed cast-iron balusters. Pine pews have
horizontal boarding and panelled ends with umbrella racks.
Panelled dado, part raised and fielded, and shaped boarded
screens flanking two 6-panel east doors from lobby.
Wall memorial panel to Revd B Wilkinson died 28 December 1893,
pastor for five and a half years.

Listing NGR: NZ0515016447

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505151

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