Church Of Christ Scientist And Boundary Wall

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.