Methodist Church Hall

SP 08 NE 7/65 5104

LOZELLS STREET Lozells B19 Methodist Church Hall

(Formerly listed as Former Public Library)

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1. Red brick with stone dressings; slate roof. A symmetrical composition consisting of a gabled centrepiece flanked on either side by a low porch. The centre piece stands on a high brick podium that incorporates the coursed stone battered bases of the brick turrets left and right of the gable. The turrets terminate in typically Arts and Crafts stone cupolas. Beneath the gable, the reading room window, large and of Palladian type, its divisions marked by triplets of slender columns without entastis and, above that, a triplet of arches standing on a stone string course. Richly carved and bracketted stone eaves cornice. Left and right of this, a lower block in which there is a single tall arched window. Left and right of this centrepiece, the entrances up steps within a low porch in which 2 arches with elaborate wrought iron gates and divided one from another by a short fat column that dies into its base.

Listing NGR: SP0641089123