Former Unitarian Chapel

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NOTTINGHAM, HIGH PAVEMENT (South side), Former Unitarian Chapel

(Formerly listed as Lace Hall, HIGH PAVEMENT.

Previously listed as Unitarian Chapel, HIGH PAVEMENT)

12/07/72

GV II

Unitarian chapel, later lace industry museum and exhibition centre. 1876. By Stuart Colman of Bristol. Converted 1989. Rockfaced stone, with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Gothic Revival style. PLAN: symmetrical plan, with chancel, vestry, nave and clerestory, transepts, aisles, and west tower with spire. EXTERIOR: plinth, sill bands, string courses, coped gables. West end gables have angle buttresses. Windows have pointed arches; the main windows have hood moulds. Chancel, single bay, has a 2-light window and small vestry to south. Large traceried east window, 7-lights. Clerestory has on each side 3 graduated triple lancets set in relieving arches with polychrome brickwork heads. At the west end, a single lancet. Transepts have a 4-light window in each gable. Aisles have 3 plain double lancets, and at the west end, a 3-light window with a triple opening above. West tower, 3 stages, has angle buttresses topped with spire pinnacles. Enriched west doorway, and above it a traceried blind arcade. Upper stage has a tall single lancet on each side, and to west, a patterned gable with a traceried round window. Bell stage has on each side, 2 pointed arched double openings. Above, an octagonal turret with 4 pointed arched openings, topped with an octagonal spire. INTERIOR: rendered, has a late C20 mezzanine floor, exhibition rooms and showcases. Chancel has an arch with responds and a panelled pointed arched roof. Stained glass east window 1904, by Morris & Co., to designs by Burne-Jones and JH Dearle. South side has an arch containing a stone screen. Nave has similar roof, with wall shafts detached from the piers. Arcades, 3 bays, have round piers and various arches with hood moulds. Tall tower arch set between square buttresses, with a stone screen containing a pointed arched door under a gable. On either side, a narrow arch with a doorway. Double west door with central pier. Transepts have moulded arches with responds, and wagon roofs. North transept north window 1890, by H Enfield, east window late C19. South transept has a stained glass south window, late C19, and to east an arch with a wooden organ gallery. Aisles have king post roofs, and arches at each end. North aisle has war memorial window, 1925, by Kempe & Co., stained glass window, 1905, and Sunday School memorial window, 1906, by H Holiday. South aisle has stained glass windows late C19 and c1931. Fittings include a rectangular ashlar pulpit with blind arcade and alabaster shafts. Memorials include a round-arched blind arcaded panel with names of ministers. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 224-225).

Listing NGR: SK5752139618