Hebron Church With Attached Gates

This is a Presbyterian church, later used by the Free Church of Scotland, now the Church of the Assemblies of God (Hebron Church), built in 1891-2. It stands on the site of an earlier Scotch Chapel designed by John Dobson in 1827. The church was designed by WL Newcombe. Constructed of rock-faced sandstone with granite shafts and ashlar dressings, quoins, and a graduated Lakeland slate roof, the building is in the Decorated Gothic style with Perpendicular aisle influences.

The exterior features a five-light east window, set within an attached school building. There are three three-light square-headed aisle windows with tracery, and paired two-light pointed-arched clerestory windows with dripstrings. The west front, facing North Bridge Street, has a north entrance door under a parapet, a south entrance within a buttressed tower, and a central gabled projecting niche that rises from a high plinth, continuous with the tower buttress and the north porch projection. Below are two tall three-light windows with sill and dripstrings. The gable contains a vesica with five small stepped lights, the outer ones blind. The tower has a high second stage with a small two-light window and paired roundels above, and tall paired moulded and shafted belfry openings beneath a pinnacled moulded parapet. A tall broach spire features bands of blind tracery, lucarnes with long gargoyles and carved finials to the gablets, and a weathercock finial. The steeply-pitched roof has roll-moulded gable copings and cross finials.

Inside, the church has three-bay arcades with wide, pointed, double-chamfered arches on fat, round Shap granite piers with ashlar bases and moulded capitals. The sanctuary arch has two orders of corbel shafts with crocket capitals. The segmental-arched, boarded roof rests on wall shafts and shafts from the arcade. The sanctuary has high panelling with a Tudor flower frieze. A full-width pulpit and choir platform features two levels of boarded parapets with Gothic decoration. There are boarded pews throughout. The windows contain clear or plain coloured glass in quarries, except for the east window, dating from c.1892, which depicts figures of Christ and the Evangelists within a geometric-style pattern. A north sanctuary window (c.1904) illustrates Christ and children, and the Good Samaritan. A south aisle window (c.1938) in the style of LC Evetts shows Christ calming the storm, and a west window depicts Christ and the fishermen calming the storm, with Peter walking on water, set in a geometric Gothic background. A north aisle east end window (c.1896) is by Atkinson Bros.