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SALTBURN, MARSKE AND NEW MARSKE

NZ6621SW WINDSOR ROAD, Saltburn 802-1/10/63 (South side) 02/09/98 Saltburn Community Centre and Theatre with former Church Hall

GV II

Includes: Saltburn Community Centre and Theatre with former Church Hall ALBION TERRACE Saltburn. Primitive Methodist Church with church hall now community centre and theatre. 1905-10 by George Baines & Son, The Strand, London, in competition. Perpendicular Revival style. MATERIALS: bright red brick with ashlar and faience dressings; roof of pale grey slates with pierced terracotta ridge cresting. PLAN: chancel, transepts, nave with north-west tower and west porch. EXTERIOR: community centre and theatre, battlemented porch has deeply splayed stone surround with many chamfered segmental head to renewed glazed double doors under traceried overlight. Traceried panel above rises to shaped coped finial. Alternate block jambs with bands continuing round canted corners as sill and lintel bands to 2-light angle windows, the angles defined by tapering pilasters with splayed finials. Tall 5-light window in gable peak with elaborate tracery has ashlar hoodmould springing from slender shafts which rise through gable coping to domed coping and decorative finials; between them the gable peak has blind tracery and decorative splayed finial. To left of porch, 3-stage tapered tower has plain paired lights on ground floor, single narrow lancets on next; tall louvred belfry openings with alternate block jambs and many-chamfered pointed ashlar heads under deep eaves, from which 4 diagonally-set piers with ashlar coping continue the angle buttresses of the tower; tall octagonal needle fleche is covered in roll-jointed sheets of metal. Nave has two 3-light windows, paired gables to transepts have tall 4-light windows, chancel has low eaves to north vestry with 3-light window under eaves. Nave and chancel roofs have decorative ridge cresting. Former church hall, linked to former church by east passage, has full-width battlemented entrance porch and flanking rooms under north gable to street. Double doors with upper glazing are flanked by 3-light windows with cusped tracery to stone mullions; similar tracery to 5-light window rising into gable peak.

Bands to imposts, lintels and hoods. Gable has pinnacled feet with yellow faience finials to gable coping which rises to small raised pediment finial. Returns have similar traceried windows. INTERIOR: community centre and theatre with ornate wooden single hammer beam roof, with ornate metal ties and arch braced roofs to transepts. Former church hall shows tapered square wood piers to wood aisle arcades and arch-braced collared roof trusses with 2 levels of purlin, ceiled above second purlins. Many struts to 2 levels of collar, which are linked by 3 straight struts. (Cleveland County Council; Typescript notes).



Listing NGR: NZ6647421277

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