Oxford Place Church With Gates, Gate Piers, Railings And Boundary Wall To South

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SE2933NE OXFORD PLACE 714-1/75/277 (West side) 22/03/74 Oxford Place Church with gates, gate piers, railings & boundary wall to south (Formerly Listed as: OXFORD PLACE Methodist Church)

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Methodist church, 2 sets of gate piers and gates, with boundary wall to south. 1835. By James Simpson, remodelled 1896-1903 by William H Thorp in partnership with George F Danby, altered c1980 to church, meeting rooms and offices. Red brick, stone dressings, wrought-iron, slate roof. On a sloping corner site with Westgate, 2 storeys with basement and attics, 5 unequal bays; Renaissance Revival style. Banded rustication. EXTERIOR: wide central entrance with paired attached Ionic columns and open pediment; narrow entrances to bays 1 and 5 with keyed architraves and round windows above. First floor: attached Ionic columns divide central 3 bays; round-arched windows to bays 1 and 5. Entablature, modillion cornice, central circular attic window in pedimented gable decorated with the dates 1835 and 1898, ramped flanking walls and obelisk finials. Outer bays have scrolled ball finials above the parapet and stone cupolas. Rear: 2 storeys, 5 first-floor windows; facade of the earlier church in 1:3 English bond on a stone plinth with stone steps flanked by gate piers with paired gates, see below; central 2-leaf panelled doors, fanlight, pilasters and pediment to surround; rubbed brick round-arched windows to left and 1 on right, 3 of the upper windows blocked, moulded stone eaves cornice; right bay remodelled by Thorp. Left return: Thorp remodelling has 7 bays, basement storey with flat-arched windows; pilasters banded in brick, segmental-arched windows to ground floor, round-arched above; pediments above bays 3 and 5, cupolas to outer bays. Right return: original church side wall with round-headed windows as rear. INTERIOR: remodelled c1980 onwards, partitioned and floored; 1898 glazing with yellow and grey scrolled design to margin lights on south side. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the church main facade is linked by a curved wall to Oxford Chambers, right (qv). Boundary wall to south has a pair of gate piers to Oxford Place with gate and

railing, and a pair of gate piers to rear, with 2-leaf gates and railing. The front gate piers are c1900, approx 1.5m high, square in section with a deep cornice and ball finials supported by scrolled brackets. The gate has 3 baluster-shaped bars flanked by scrolled panels above the scrolled lock-bar; the short curved linking wall to the church is of 3 courses of ashlar with rounded coping and fragmentary railing composed of a standard with urn finial and bars with spearhead finials. Rear: square-section, flat capped gate piers, 2-leaf gates with spearhead finials, railings to right as front, low retaining wall with flat coping encloses church ground on south.

Listing NGR: SE2967633831