Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26667274

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)