Maurice Key Furnishings

Maurice Key Furnishings is a former church, now a furniture store, built in 1836 by J D Paine and converted around 1987. The building is constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings and slate roofs, designed in an Early English style. It features a plinth at the west end, moulded string courses, a sill band, a corbel table, and moulded coped parapets and gables. There are three octagonal corner stacks with billeted caps.

The layout includes a nave, aisles, sanctuary, and vestries. The west end of the nave has gabled buttresses topped with spired pinnacles and a gable with a cross. A central moulded doorway is flanked by small single lancets, each with similar gables. Above this, there is a graduated triple lancet with shafts and hood moulds. The projecting aisle gables have central moulded doorways with shafts and single lancets above, all featuring hood moulds. The buttressed north and south aisles have six pairs of tall plain lancets with shafts and linked hood moulds.

The projecting north vestry has angle buttresses and a chamfered doorway with a hood mould to the west. There is an inserted two-leaf door with a barred overlight to the north and a flush south vestry with a plain chamfered doorway. Inside, the church has a canted panelled gallery supported by round iron posts and a trussed rafter roof with imitation hammer beams at the east and west ends. Wooden wall shafts rest on corbels. The east end features a square panelled sanctuary with a double chamfered arch and triple filleted shafts, along with a graduated triple lancet with shafts, hood mould, and patterned stained glass. The west end has a similar arch above the gallery, with a plainer triple lancet. The canted entrance lobby has gabled headed doors, and on either side, there is a cantilever wooden stair with stick balusters.