Former City Temple at Corner of Madeley Street is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1994. Former nonconformist church, drama studio. 4 related planning applications.
Former City Temple at Corner of Madeley Street
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice MP: Emma Hardy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1994
- Type
- Former nonconformist church, drama studio
- Address
- Former City Temple at Corner of Madeley Street, Hessle Road, HU3 4AA
- OS grid reference
- TA 083 279
- Coordinates
- 53.73631, -0.35817
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former City Temple at the corner of Madeley Street in Kingston upon Hull is a disused nonconformist church and adjoining hall, now serving as a drama studio. Built in 1879 by W Freeman, the building is constructed of yellow brick with ashlar and granite dressings, featuring hipped and gabled slate roofs with a single coped gable stack. It is designed in a Romanesque style, characterized by a plinth, string courses, a single coped gable, and moulded dentillated eaves.
The west end of the building has a recessed central gable flanked by square towers. It features a central wheel window set in an enriched round-arched surround with a hoodmould, and the inscription "City Temple" is located below the window. Above the wheel window, there is a small graduated triple lancet. Below, a pedimented doorway with granite columns leads to a close boarded door, and the tympanum contains two small round-headed lights. On either side of the doorway, there is a single window with leaded glazing and a hoodmould.
The flanking towers are three stages high, with plinths, string courses, angle buttresses, corbel tables, and cornices. The parapets are designed as coped gables, and each tower features a set-back four-sided slated spire. The first stage of each tower includes a pedimented doorway with shafts similar to the central doorway. To the north and south, there are two pairs of single windows, one above the other, each with hoodmoulds and impost bands. The second stage on two sides has a recessed panel with a corbelled head, containing a double window with a hoodmould. The third stage has a small double window on three sides.
The left return of the building has five bays with recessed panels separated by full-height pilasters. Each bay contains two windows with hoodmoulds on each floor. At the east end, the drama studio is two storeys high and lower than the main body of the church, projecting to the left. In the return angle, there is a 20th-century door. The left return features three pairs of round-arched windows on each floor, all with hoodmoulds.
Local climate
Former City Temple at Corner of Madeley Street receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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