Voluntary Missionary Movement is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Training centre.
Voluntary Missionary Movement
- WRENN ID
- hushed-ember-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Training centre
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Voluntary Missionary Movement is a training centre built around 1927, likely designed by Sir Ninian Comper as an extension to the All Saints Pastoral Centre. The building is constructed of purple brick with red brick and stone dressings, topped with a machine tile roof. It has a T-shaped layout and features a symmetrical east elevation in a Neo-Georgian style, rising to 2-3 storeys.
The front facade consists of 11 windows, with slightly projecting gable ends that have banded brick quoins. There are single pilaster-quoins set two windows in from each gable, creating a five-part elevation. The central section displays five first-floor casement roundels, while the ground floor features a shallow blank arcade. A central recessed door is flanked by glazing bar casements and is sheltered by an inset cemented porch supported by Tuscan columns and topped with a moulded entablature. The intermediate bays have sash windows on the ground floor and casements above, and the gable ends are adorned with sashes in moulded round-arched frames on the upper floor.
Atop the central ridge, there is a square wooden belfry tower with an ogee copper hood and a weathervane. The north end elevation has a 1:2:1 window arrangement with banded quoins, while the south end features a single-storey loggia that connects with the All Saints Pastoral Centre.
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