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

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