Description

SJ 75 NW CREWE C.P. CREWE ROAD
(Crewe Green)

2/26 Crewe Green Church Hall

GV II

Formerly school, 1882 (on wall mounted sundial) now the Church Hall.
Red brick with red tile roof, in Jacobean style. Single storey, 4
bays including facade gable east. There is also a lean-to porch
entrance west. The front gable has central 6 board filled panel door,
with semi-circular head, in stone ovolo moulded frame with keystone.
This is flanked by rectangular stone dressed stained glass windows
with weathered sill band. Door is surmounted by oak bracket and
corbel supported segmental pediment with carved arms in tympanum.
Clock in circular stone frame with 4 keystones in apex of gable with
carved bargeboard. Gable is surmounted by diagonally set fleche with
ogee tiled roof and weather vane. Three west bays are symmetrical
about the second slightly projecting bay which has large stone
dressed, glass covered, stone carved panel depicting "Time rewarding
industry and punishing sloth". Above there is a tablet inscribed
"What shall we render unto the Lord". This is surmounted by a brick
scroll pediment containing emblems of the Crewe Estate. The bay
terminates in a stack like structure, with octagonal piers, flanking
sundial with the inscription "use well thy time" and the date. The
centre west bay is flanked by diaper work and double mullion stone
windows with high transome and heads above eaves in timber framed
bracketted gabled dormers with cove-jettied apex. Moulded cast iron
eaves gutter on boxed fascia, single pilaster panelled stack and
crested ridge. The west lean-to has Jacobean style, pilaster-mullion
three light windows, flanking a pair of three panel, board filled,
doors in timber framed gabled porch. The ends of the lean-to are also
timber framed.

Listing NGR: SJ7275355434

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599429

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Care and Repair