Church of Christ Scientist and Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Nottingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 July 1972. Church.

Church of Christ Scientist and Boundary Wall

WRENN ID
western-kitchen-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Nottingham
Constituency
Nottingham East MP: Nadia Whittome (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 July 1972
Type
Church
Address
Church of Christ Scientist and Boundary Wall, Mansfield Road, City of Nottingham, NG1 3HX
OS grid reference
SK 570 411
Coordinates
52.96428, -1.15192
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Christ Scientist, formerly a Presbyterian church, was built in 1896 by Brewill & Baily of Nottingham. It is accompanied by a boundary wall and gate. The building is constructed of ashlar with stone slate roofs and is designed in the Perpendicular Revival style.

The plan includes a nave with clerestory and aisles, north and south porches, a meeting room, and a south-west tower. The exterior features a plinth, coped gables, ornamental iron gutter brackets and rainwater heads. The mullioned and single-light windows have flat heads. The nave, with six bays, has five round-arched windows on each side, each with three lights, tracery, and hood moulds. The east gable is blank, with two small mullioned windows set low down. The west gable features a large traceried pointed arched window of five lights with major mullions and a hood mould, and below it, a mullioned window of five lights. Angle buttresses are present on both gables. The aisles incorporate buttresses and three-light mullioned windows. The north-west porch has a coped gable, angle buttress, two mullioned windows, and a segment-arched door. The smaller south-east porch has a simpler doorway and a side window. The square south-west tower is three stages high, with angle buttresses and a shaped crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles. A segment-arched recess on the south side contains two doors, with two mullioned windows above. A side window provides three lights. The bell stage has flat-headed openings with six lights.

The coped boundary wall, constructed of brick and ashlar, surrounds the west and south sides. A gateway with steps leads to the south door, incorporating renewed gates and a wrought-iron overthrow.

The interior features exposed ashlar and rendering above. The nave has narrow aisles separated by five-bay arcades with rebated segment arches and plain octagonal piers. The roof is a hammer beam construction with arch braces. At the front is a platform with a late 20th-century screen and a 19th-century organ case. A panelled wooden gallery is situated at the rear, with a partition inserted below. The aisles have segment-arched doors. The entrance lobby has a cross beam ceiling. The meeting room to the north-east features a segmental vault and panelled wainscot. Original plain benches and mid-20th-century lecterns are among the fittings.

Local climate

Church of Christ Scientist and Boundary Wall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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