Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318SW PARK ROAD 844-1/12/236 (North side) Whitefield Memorial Presbyterian Church

II

Presbyterian church. 1871. By Medland and Son. Yellow brick with decorative bands and diaper panels of red and brown brick, stone dressings, tiled roofs with decorative ridge tiles. Eclectic Gothic style. Aisled nave of six bays with a single end-gable roof, tower at the north-west corner with pyramidal tiled roof replacing original ashlar spire; a lower and narrower gabled bay at the east end. EXTERIOR: tower with entrance doorway on the north side set into shallow porch with gabled arch; west front with double central entrance doorway approached by a flight of stone steps and set in a shallow porch with a stone gabled arch supported on stone columns with foliated capitals; over the doorways a sculpted stone tympanum showing George Whitefield preaching to congregation and inscribed on the trumeau "The love of Christ constrains me to lift up my heart like a trumpet". Above the doorway and a moulded stone sill band are three stepped windows with moulded brick arches: the central window of three-lights and the side windows of two lights all with foiled Decorated tracery in stone. INTERIOR: not inspected. A good example of a non-conformist church designed in a vigorous and eclectic style, by a noteworthy firm of local architects. (BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 239).





Listing NGR: SO8345118028

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