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Latitude: 50.7225 / 50°43'21"N
Longitude: -1.8538 / 1°51'13"W
OS Eastings: 410419
OS Northings: 91442
OS Grid: SZ104914
Mapcode National: GBR XBG.1V
Mapcode Global: FRA 7705.FN8
Plus Code: 9C2WP4FW+2G
Entry Name: First Church of Christ Scientist and Sunday School Including Lamp Standards, Railings, Area Wall, Gate Piers and Gates to North
Listing Date: 14 July 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1387388
English Heritage Legacy ID: 475344
Also known as: First Church of Christ Scientist
First Church of Christ Scientist and Sunday school including lamp standards, railings, area wall, gate piers and gates to north
ID on this website: 101387388
Location: East Cliff, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, BH1
County: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bournemouth
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Bournemouth St John the Evangelist, Boscombe
Church of England Diocese: Winchester
Tagged with: Church building
SZ 1091 BOURNEMOUTH CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
768/22/10058 Number 45A,
First Church of Christ Scientist
And Sunday School, including
Lamp standards, railings, area
Wall, gate-piers and gates
To North
II
Christian Science church and Sunday School. 1926; by W.J. Dacombe; Sunday school added in 1933 also by Dacombe. Plumb-coloured Flemish bond brick with some vitrified headers and Ham Hill stone dressings. Pantile hipped roof. PLAN: Large rectangular auditorium entered at N end, and with Sunday school added at S end. Neo-Georgian style. EXTERIOR: North front, pedimented centre advanced with tetra style portico in antis with Ionic columns, the entablature broken by a central arch with a keystone. The portico entablature continues around lower bays in angles to left and right, and around the east and west sides where it is broken by round-arch windows, and above, the main entablature is continued. At the back [5] the large 2-storey Sunday school with broad stone bands, stepped parapet and groups of narrow windows. Including wrought-iron lamp standards, railings, area wall, gate-piers and gates in front to north. INTERIOR intact. The walls of the auditorium have broad pilasters, on the east and west walls to the piers alternating with round-arch windows, entablature above and coffered ceiling. Rostrum and two reading desks, one for the reading of the scriptures, one for extracts from Mary Baker Eddy's' Science and Health', Complete raked seating. Large Sunday school at rear, for Christian Scientists did not attend the adult church before the age of 21. A good example of a Christian Science Church, with a particularly fine facade.
SOURCE: Buildings of England [Hampshire], [addendum], p.842.
Listing NGR: SZ1041991442
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