Congregational Church

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SP 7387 1/31

BOWDEN LANE (East Side) Congregational Church

(Formerly listed as HIGH STREET United Reformed Church, previously listed as the Congregational Church)

25.7.52.

GV II*

1. Architect William Flint of Leicester. Recessed behind church yard. Gault brick with stone dressings and rusticated quoins. Painted modillion cornice and parapet with centre panel crowned by moulded scroll ornament and inscribed "Independent Chapel". Two storeys. Five windows, the centre three uppers divided by engaged Corinthian columns and flanked by Corinthian pilasters. Round-arched windows. Ground floor ham tetrastyle portico with Greek Ionic columns in antis. Six stone steps. Painted entablature above with dentil cornice. Ground floor windows have shaped frames and pediments. All windows, sashes with glazing bars and moulded painted architraves. Facade to Bowden Lane, six windows, those of first floor round-arched with band between floors and at first floor impost height.

Interior: Panelled balcony curved round three sides of church supported on long scrolled brackets with low relief curving and columns with composite capitals and fluted shafts on tall polygonal plinths. Moulded arch at east end with modillion cornice and pilasters over organ and pulpit. Six-panelled doors.

Listing NGR: SP7321987513