Nazareth Unitarian Church

SD 73 SE PADIHAM CHURCH STREET (south side)

3/35 Nazareth Unitarian Church

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Unitarian Church. 1872 by Virgil Anderton, a member of the congregation. Coursed sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings and spire. Slate roofs with gable copings. Built on a slope above school rooms in basement, cruciform plan with tower over porch to left and single-storey porch to right. Most details from the transition between Geometrical and Curvilinear. Facade has, below, a tall 3-light window with a quatrefoil, flanked by 2 lancets, and, above, a 4-light window subdivided into 2 pairs with a sexfoil. Openwork cross on gable and above East end. Doorway with shafted responds and crocket capitals and tympanum carrying datestone. 4-stage tower carries a short octagonal spire with a band of sunk quatrefoils below 4 blind lucarnes; junction of tower and spire cleverly concealed by 4 sturdy octagonal turrets and by gables rising above the bell-openings which have plate tracery. Interior has a broad nave under hammerbeam roof with remarkably slender trusses, shallow transpets with galleries, and a lower, aisled chancel lit by a 4-light window whose lower central lights have 3 quatrefoils in a circle above.

Listing NGR: SD7900133848