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1270832
646-1/13/224

NOTTINGHAM
GOLDSMITH STREET (West side)
Church of St Andrew and attached former Sunday school

GV
II

Presbyterian church, now United Reformed church, and attached former Sunday school. Dated 1869, by Robert Evans of Nottingham. Additions and alterations mid C20. Rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof with coped gables. Various lias limestone bands. Gothic Revival style.

EXTERIOR: plinth, pointed arched windows with hood moulds. Single unit, with semicircular transepts and prominent porches and stair towers at west end. Sunday school adjoining at east end.

Main unit has at the east end, a traceried round window. On each side, two two-light windows. At the west end, facing the street, five arcaded windows, flanked by straight buttresses. Above, a four-light window, traceried, with a round window above. Transepts have three single light windows. To south-west, a square porch, two storeys, with pyramidal roof and angle buttresses. Pointed arched double door to west, two-light window to north. To north-west, a gable porch, two storeys. To north, a pointed arched double door with shafts, and above it, a two-light window. Right return has a single light stair window. In the return angles of the porches, external corridors with quatrefoil coping.

Sunday school, two storeys plus basement, has two two-light windows at the north end, with quatrefoil heads.

INTERIOR rendered, mainly original. Single space with crossing flanked by transepts, rear gallery, and entrance lobby flanked by stair tower and baptistry. Main space barrel vaulted with match board panelling and wooden ribs. Transepts are spanned by double wooden arches, pointed, with traceried spandrels. Wooden half-domes with ribs.

At the front, panelled wooden screen, pulpit, organ case and reading desk, 1869. Stained glass round window, 1870. At the rear, a wooden gallery on cast-iron columns with crocket capitals. Traceried wrought-iron crest to panelled front.

Under the gallery, a doorway flanked by two windows, all with pointed arches. Each side of the gallery, doors with stained glass panels. Crossing has at each corner a round column with crocket capital, flanked at the front by pointed arched doorways. At the rear, pointed arched doors to east, and shouldered doors to north and south leading to internal porches.

Entrance lobby has pointed arched doors at each end, and three stained glass windows, c1920. Stairwells contain stone cantilever stairs with elaborate cast-iron balusters.

Baptistry to south has an octagonal panelled font with shafts, 1893. Other fittings include original curved benches throughout. No memorials

Listing NGR: SK5694640268

External Links

• St. Andrew with Castlegate United Reformed Church at Wikipedia
• St. Andrew with Castlegate United Reformed Church official website
• Wikidata Q7586921

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