Queens Hall Methodist Mission (Entrance Block Only), Wigan Central, Wigan

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.5475 / 53°32'50"N

Longitude: -2.6334 / 2°38'0"W

OS Eastings: 358126

OS Northings: 405834

OS Grid: SD581058

Mapcode National: GBR BW1F.N1

Mapcode Global: WH97Y.J368

Plus Code: 9C5VG9W8+XJ

Entry Name: Queens Hall Methodist Mission (Entrance Block Only)

Listing Date: 8 December 1999

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1384491

English Heritage Legacy ID: 484925

ID on this website: 101384491

Location: Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN1

County: Wigan

Electoral Ward/Division: Wigan Central

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Wigan

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester

Church of England Parish: Wigan All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Liverpool

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Description

WIGAN

SD5805NW MARKET STREET
24-1/7/39 (West side)
Nos.44-50 (Even)
Queens Hall Methodist Mission
(entrance block only)

Entrance block of former concert hall (demolished 1985), now
Methodist Mission. 1906, by Bradshaw and Gass of Bolton;
altered. Red brick in English garden wall bond, with
stone-coloured dressings, graduated slate roof. Rectangular
plan. Edwardian Baroque style.
3 storeys and attic plus a 2-stage turret, 2:1:2 windows,
symmetrical; ground floor altered; giant pilasters to the
centre, pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice, square
turret with clasping pilasters and prominent cornice to the
lower stage, domed Baroque upper stage. The 1st floor has tall
cross-windows with wooden mullions and transoms, and moulded
architraves with large keyblocks and open segmental pediments,
that in the centre featured with Ionic columns and the others
with festoons; the 2nd floor has 2-light casements with
simpler architraves; at attic level the turret has a lunette
with triple keystone, the outer bays have large pedimented
dormers with 3-light casements; and all these windows have
glazing bars. Raised coped gables, gable chimneys. Forms a
very prominent feature of the street.

Listing NGR: SD5812605834

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