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SK38NW CROOKESMOOR ROAD 784-1/5/235 (South East side) 04/09/89 Unitarian Church and adjoining boundary wall and bridge (Formerly Listed as: CROOKESMOOR ROAD Unitarian Church and attached railings)

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Unitarian church, adjoining boundary wall and bridge. c1900. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs with a side wall stack. Perpendicular Revival style. Buttressed shouldered coped gables. PLAN: cruciform plan, built on a steeply sloping site so that the west entrance to the church is at ground level, and a community hall and other business rooms are below and to east. EXTERIOR: east end has a flat-roofed 2 storey projection with two 2-light mullioned windows and below, a canted bay window with 3 lights. Chancel east gable has a 5-light pointed arched panel tracery window, and below it a 4-light cross mullioned window with 2 major mullions. Transepts have 5-light pointed arch panel tracery windows and below them, large cross-mullioned windows. Both transepts have lower gabled wings to east, with irregular fenestration. Nave clerestory, 3 bays, has shallow arched recesses with large segment-headed 2-light Perpendicular windows. Buttressed crenellated aisles have 4 traceried windows and below them, large cross mullioned windows to the community hall, with basement windows below. West front has a low brick wall topped with railings, and square brick piers. This is linked to the church by a segment-arched bridge with moulded ashlar coped parapets, with steps leading to the churchyard. Projecting crenellated entrance porch has a cross finial. Central segmental ashlar entrance arch has carved bosses and 2 doors set at an angle. Above and behind, a 5-light pointed arched window with panel tracery. Above again, the chequerboarded gable has a tiny lancet. INTERIOR has segment-headed nave arcades and shallow plaster vault. Tall dado panelling and original wooden fittings. Disused at time of survey.

Listing NGR: SK3349987447

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