Market Hall And Railings On South East And South West Sides

This mid-1870s building, originally a nonconformist church designed by Gibbons of Ipswich, now serves as an events venue known as Kingsway Hall. It was later used as an indoor market. The church is constructed of Roman cement-coated brickwork with metal sheet roofs.

The architectural style is Italianate. A prominent five-stage tower is located at the South West end, topped with a low-pitched pyramid roof, a dentilled cornice, and an iron finial/weathervane. The top stage has clasping pilasters and segmental arch-headed louvred openings. A stage below features circular openings with moulded frames on each face, a modillioned cornice, and an architrave framing a semicircular window at its base. The tower base slightly projects beyond flanking lobbies, which have parapets and Grecian detailing.

The South West door opening to the tower is topped with a low pediment, and similar pedimented doors are found in the flanks of the lobbies, along with matching single windows on the South West face. The nave has a low-pitched roof, parapeted gables, and three large Venetian windows with heavily articulated, stilted semicircular arches on each flank. A short 'chancel' projects on the North East end, featuring a low-pitched roof, a parapeted gable, and a tripartite group of narrow, semicircular arch-headed windows. Ground level at the chancel is enclosed within a single-storey, felt-hipped roofed block with panelled exterior.

Due to the sloping ground, moat-like areas exist on the South East and South West sides, featuring 22 Roman cement-coated piers supporting cast-iron panels and Anthemion castings. Flights of stairs provide access to the main and lobby doors.

The interior of the nave features three bays defined by giant pilasters and a boarded roof that coves on the flanks. The chancel has a pair of Doric pilasters and an enclosing semicircular arch. A gallery is located at the South West end, supported by raking brackets and two cast-iron columns. The gallery entrance is a deep semicircular-arched recess with an entablature supported by flanking lateral consoles. The gallery stairs, located in the South East lobby, have turned balusters.

A marble plaque (now a replica) under the tower commemorates Robert John Bagshaw MP’s mother and sister who drowned in the Hooghly River, Calcutta in 1820. A similar plaque in the South West lobby remembers his wife Georgiana, who died in 1867. The basement contains cast-iron columns and is currently (2024) used as a shop.