Woodborough Road Islamic Social Centre

The Woodborough Road Islamic Social Centre, formerly Woodborough Road Baptist Church, is a red brick building with a rock-faced stone basement, blue brick, and stone ashlar dressings, constructed in 1893. It was designed by Watson Fothergill of Nottingham and converted to its current use around 1980. The building is of idiosyncratic Romanesque style with gabled and hipped plain tile roofs and a tall coped corner stack.

The main body of the building has a basement, clerestory, and apse, with flanking aisles and cross wings, and a north-east tower. The east end features four segment-arched basement openings and four cross casements above; a further four tall round-arched windows are above that. The clerestory has six 3-light round-arched windows on each side. The north aisle has an arcaded basement with six segment-arched openings, five shouldered windows above, and five cusped round windows in round-arched recesses above those. A pent-roofed porch and stair enclosure are to the east, with two doorways and a truncated round-arched window. The gabled cross wing to the north-west includes two segment-arched basement openings, a shouldered two-light window above, and a graduated triple window with round arches above. The octagonal north-east tower has three stages and a hipped roof with a cast-iron crest. The basement level has a double doorway with ringed granite shafts and fanlights under gables, alongside a small round-arched window similarly treated. Above are two flat-headed windows, and the bell stage has a hipped canopy on each side, displaying clock dials.

The interior is red brick with blue and buff brick decorative elements, rendered aisles, and east and west ends. The main space has an arch braced roof with corbels and a stencilled ceiling. A polychrome round head is carried on cast-iron columns at the east end, with a barrel-vaulted recess flanked by angled cross casement windows and a glazed tile band. Arcades feature five polychrome round arches on round cast-iron columns with elaborate capitals. The aisles have lean-to roofs, and there are galleries with renewed panelling. The west end boasts an arch braced apse, a panelled gallery, and a glazed wooden screen forming offices. The basement, supported by cast-iron columns, was subdivided in the late 20th century.