Seventh Day Adventist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1991. Church. 5 related planning applications.

Seventh Day Adventist Church

WRENN ID
scattered-wall-vale
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Preston
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1991
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Seventh Day Adventist Church, originally known as the United Reformed Church and previously the Grimshaw Street Congregational Chapel, is a former Congregational chapel built between 1857 and 1859 by architects Bellamy and Hardy. It stands on the site of an original chapel from 1810. The church is constructed of coursed rock-faced sandstone and features a slate roof.

It has a rectangular plan with a slightly wider front section and a shallow rectangular extension at the east end, designed in the Gothic style. The building is two storeys high and has a tripartite west front, which includes a gabled center flanked by two square towers. The left tower is topped with a spire, while the right tower remains uncompleted.

The entrance is accessed by five wide steps leading to a three-bay arcade with large two-centred arches, which are moulded in two orders and supported by clustered shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. The doors feature ornamental strap hinges. Above the entrance, there is a large two-centred arched four-light window with quatrefoil tracery and a hoodmould, along with a smaller arched trefoil window above it, inscribed with "A.D.MDCCCLIX".

Both towers have angle-buttresses on the first stage, with a spherical triangle between them, and each side of the second stage features a tall cusped lancet. The north tower is topped with an octagonal spire on a low octagonal drum with a broach base.

The two-storey side walls have six bays, full-height buttresses, and square-headed windows, all featuring two cusped lights. The ground floor windows have relieving arches above them. The interior of the church includes a gallery.

This building forms a group with the attached school located on the south side.

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