Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK5740NW WOODBOROUGH ROAD 646-1/11/765 (North West side) 19/04/78 Woodborough Road Islamic Social Centre (Formerly Listed as: WOODBOROUGH ROAD Woodborough Road Baptist Church)

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Baptist church, now Islamic social centre. 1893. By Watson Fothergill of Nottingham. Converted c1980. Red brick, with rock-faced stone basement, blue brick, red brick and ashlar dressings, gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. Tall coped corner stack. Idiosyncratic Romanesque style. EXTERIOR: plinth, polychrome bands and string courses, bays divided by shallow pilasters. Main body with basement, clerestory and apse, aisles, cross wings, north-east tower. Main body, 6 bays, has at the east end 4 segment-arched basement openings, and above, 4 cross casements. Above again, 4 tall round-arched windows. Clerestory has six 3-light round-arched windows on each side. North aisle has an arcaded basement with 6 segment-arched openings. Above, 5 shouldered windows, 2 lights. Above again, 5 cusped round windows in round-arched recesses. At the east end, a pent-roofed porch and stair enclosure with 2 doorways and a truncated round-arched window, 3 lights. Above, 3 small round-arched stair windows, stepped. Gabled cross wing, to north-west, has 2 segment-arched basement openings, and above, a 2-light shouldered window. Above again, a graduated triple window with round arches. North east tower, octagonal, 3 stages, with hipped roof and cast-iron crest. Basement level has a double doorway with ringed granite shafts and blank fanlights under gables. To left, a small round-arched window under a similar gable. Above, 2 flat-headed windows. Bell stage has a hipped canopy on each side, with clock dials. INTERIOR: red brick with blue and buff brick dressings, has rendered aisles and east and west ends. Arch braced roof to main space, with corbels and stencilled ceiling. East end has a recess with polychrome round head carried on cast-iron columns. Barrel vaulted recess, flanked by angled cross casement windows, has a glazed tile band. Main space has arcades with 5 polychrome round arches on round cast-iron columns with elaborate capitals. Aisles have lean-to roof and galleries with renewed panelling to fronts. West end has an arch braced apse, containing a panelled gallery. Under the gallery, a glazed wooden screen forming offices. Basement, carried on cast-iron columns, subdivided late C20. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 262; Get to know Nottingham: Brand K: Watson Fothergill, Architect: Nottingham: 1987-: 11).

Listing NGR: SK5745840919

External Links

• Woodborough Road Baptist Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q8032388

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