Description

ST JOHN'S PLACE
(North side)
656-1/40/1565 St Paul's Church Hall

11/08/72

GV II

Parish hall and church house, now warehouse. 1889, possibly by C.E. Davis.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, slate roof.
PLAN: Corner building, with short return to Monmouth Street.
EXTERIOR: Florid Bath Baroque revival style, with steep hipped roof. Three storeys, one+three+one windows to long front, four/eight-pane sashes, at second floor in raised plat surrounds and with segmental pediment and dentil cornice, to moulded sills with aprons. End bays, brought forward, have modified sashes in sunk panel on moulded sill with scroll apron, with channelled pilasters above scrolled panels, labelled `S PAUL'S PARISH HALL¿ and `S PAUL'S CHURCH HOUSE¿ above raised cartouche with sunk shell centre to swagged frieze above former doors, in channelled masonry. Ground floor with C20 infill. Broad platband above first floor, cornice, broken forward at windows and pilasters, blocking course. Short front in three bays, with four-pane sash each side of tripartite two:four:two pane at second floor, in raised plat surrounds, to segmental pediments each side, and to cornice with high raised segmental pediment with swags and other embellishment, including central date. First floor four deep eight-pane in raised plat surrounds, and under ornate scrolled pediments, to moulded sill on block brackets. Ground floor plain, with inserted wide door to left, plinth has two blocked openings. Quoins and central stepped forward bay channelled, and cornice has blocking course with parapet, and end dies with urns.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7482164820

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673902

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