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SK3487SW UPPER HANOVER STREET
784-1/22/725 (West side)
28/06/73 CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
United Reformed Church and attached hall, wall & railing
(Formerly Listed as:
UPPER HANOVER STREET
Presbyterian Church of St Andrew)

GV II

United Reformed church and adjoining hall, boundary wall and
railing. 1855-56, the interior refitted c1945 following bomb
damage, with mid C20 additions. By Flockton & Son. Coursed
squared stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs, that to
the nave steep pitched. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south-west tower
and spire, vestry and elders' rooms, hall.
EXTERIOR: pointed arch windows throughout. Chamfered plinth,
buttresses, coped gables, windows with hoodmoulds.
Chancel has no external features. Nave west gable has a
5-light window with Geometrical tracery and sillband and
below, 3 small lancets.
South aisle has three 3-light windows with Geometrical tracery
and flat heads. North aisle, 4 bays, has 3 similar windows and
to right, a moulded doorway with single shafts and a crocketed
gable.
South-west tower, 3 stages, has gabled diagonal buttresses and
string courses. First stage has to west a moulded doorway with
shafts and a crocketed gable with finial. Canted second stage
has chamfered diagonal buttresses and a single slit light to
east. Bell stage is an octagonal lantern with 8 steep-gabled
lancet openings. Octagonal spire has 2 tiers of lucarnes with
cusped trefoil openings.
2 storey vestry and elders' rooms has to north a single lancet
and to its right a 5-light flat-headed mullioned window.
Below, a segment-headed chamfered doorway dated 1856, and to
its right, two 2-light mullioned windows.
Hall entrance, to south-east, has a moulded Tudor style
doorway with a lintel inscribed "St Andrew's Hall".
INTERIOR: chancel has triple rebated arch with hoodmould and
triple shaft imposts, and flat ceiling. Nave has 3-bay arcades
with chamfered arches and octagonal piers with foliate
capitals. Flat ceiling and plain clerestory windows. At the
west end, a C20 gallery with a segmental pointed door at each
end. Aisles have lean-to roofs with struts and tracery and
single segmental pointed doors at the east ends. North aisle
has a similar door at the west end. Hall has an arch braced
roof, now ceiled in.
Fittings include a stained glass window, 1963 by Donald
Robertson and another, 1962. Octagonal oak font on stem, 1941.
Other fittings 1953.
Memorials: include marble war memorial tablet in Classical
wooden surround.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: outside, at the west end, coursed squared
stone terrace wall with chamfered coping, carrying a spiked
wrought-iron railing with an off-centre gate.
(Flockton & Son--perspective drawing).

Listing NGR: SK3438587000

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 29 August 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560872

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