Trafalgar Street Evangelical Church Adjoining Halls And Boundary Wall

Trafalgar Street Evangelical Church, Adjoining Halls and Boundary Wall

A former Central Baptist church, now used as an Evangelical church, with adjoining halls and boundary wall, located on Beverley Road, Kingston upon Hull. The main church was designed by George Baines & Son of London and completed in 1904. The larger adjoining hall dates from the late 19th century and was originally the church building.

The church is constructed of red brick panelled with flint nodules, with moulded brick dressings and a slate roof. It is topped with a spired octagonal turret. The architectural style is Free Perpendicular Gothic.

Architectural features include a plinth, sill band, impost band and hoodmoulds, together with coped gables and parapets. The windows are predominantly Perpendicular lancets with cusped ogee-headed lights and panel tracery, set in segment-headed openings. The building has a gabled east end, transepts, a nave with aisles, and a south-west tower.

The east end displays two segmental pointed single lancets and two coped side wall stacks. On each side are two-storey stair enclosures with flat-headed double lancets above and chamfered doorways below. The transepts each have a large five-light lancet above and a pair of triple lancets below. The south transept features a pair of panelled flanking buttresses with coped segment-arched heads. The aisles contain three triple lancets to the east and a single lancet to the west. The north aisle also has a double lancet at the west end.

The nave's west end is dominated by a central five-light lancet with slim flanking buttresses, above which are a pair of small single lancets. Below is a single-storey flat-roofed porch with diagonal buttresses and crenellated parapet, containing two moulded segment-arched recessed doorways with pairs of half-glazed double doors and overlights. On either side of the porch is a single lancet. To the right stands a small battered corner tower with angle buttresses and flat-topped pinnacles, topped with a cornice and crenellated parapet with louvred slit openings. On either side of the nave are large box dormers with six lights.

The south-west tower rises through three stages with diagonal buttresses, string courses, a corbel table with gargoyles, crenellated parapet and pinnacles with caps. It contains a square open wooden bell turret with deep cornice, topped with a leaded spire. At ground level on the west side is a canted bay window with three double lancets and crenellated parapet. To the south is a recessed segment-headed doorway with a pair of half-glazed doors. The second stage has slit openings with hoodmoulds on three sides. The bell stage has traceried triple lancet bell openings in coved segment-headed surrounds on each side.

Outside the west end, a brick and flint boundary wall with brick piers and wavy-topped moulded concrete coping runs across the site, with a small iron gate to the north.

The smaller hall adjoining the church has a coped gable with a five-light lancet, flanked by link walls with wavy-topped copings. To the left is a chamfered doorway with a pair of half-glazed doors, and to the right a triple lancet with flat head. The larger hall, positioned to the left, lacks flint panelling and features a coped facing gable with round-arched windows both above and below, three single round-arched windows and a round-arched doorway.

The interior contains a false hammerbeam roof with traceried spandrels and an all-round traceried wooden gallery with rounded corners. The nave has three-bay arcades with tapered square wooden posts featuring traceried arch braces to the arcade plate and ornamented iron tie rods. At the front is a moulded four-centred arch with hoodmould and shaft imposts. The gallery holds a Gothic organ case, with half-glazed doors on either side.

The chancel is dominated by a canted traceried oak pulpit with steps and wrought-iron handrails on each side, supported by posts with arch braces forming a canopy. Beneath the pulpit sits a cruciform marble font, with a pair of angled doors providing access. On either side of the font are flights of marble steps with wrought-iron handrails. In front of the font is a semicircular dais with integral communion table and wood and iron handrail. At the rear is a patterned stained-glass window with a pair of traceried glazed double doors flanked by square stained-glass windows below. The transepts also contain patterned stained-glass windows and single doorways on their east sides.

At the west end are entrance lobbies and a cloakroom with traceried panelled glazed doors and screens. A stone cantilever dogleg stair with cast-iron handrail is positioned to the south.

The smaller hall has a traceried arch-braced roof. The larger hall features an arch-braced waggon roof with four purlins, with a panelled gallery at one end with turned balustrades and a segmental pedimented panel dated 1905 at the other. Curved scroll-ended benches are among the fittings.