Hillside Free Church And Hall

TQ 09 NW CHORLEYWOOD HILLSIDE ROAD (Northeast side) Chorleywood

5/100 Hillside Free Church and Hall

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Baptist Church and hall. 1905 extended 1934 all by H.G. Ibberson, builder J.A. Bates. Stock brick, part roughcast, some flint dressings. Slate roof. Arts and Crafts Style influenced by C.F.A. Voysey. 4 bay hall with W narthex. W end: ground floor flat roofed narthex with entrance to S, double doors, ornamental copper frieze on lintel and inscription, canted embrasure with arched head, roughcast soffit. To W a 3 light brick mullioned window, leaded lights. Roughcast W gable end above narthex has a large round light with a tile base to reveal. Flanking brick piers project slightly and form square parapets at ends of gable, some flint and brick chequer work in piers. N and S elevations have Diocletian windows with stone sills and mullions, leaded lights, roughcast above sill level. Pilaster buttresses. Boxed eaves. Roof slopes are flared out just above eaves. Central leaded bell turret, octagonal tapering to an open head with a domical cupola, rod finial, relief panels on 4 sides. E end: roughcast with projecting strip to centre carrying flues, round headed ventilation slits, flanking brick piers as at W end. 1 bay vestry to E with entrance, flanking leaded casements, parapet. To NE an outshut, door with heart ornament. Attached to E and returning to N at a 45 degree angle are stock brick hall additions of 1934 also by Ibberson. Interior: fielded panelled doors to hall from narthex. Tiled panels and dentilled cornices between windows. Ceiled roof with bird in vine scroll ornament on queen struts from brattished tie beams. Blind round arch at E end. Raised panelled reading desk, frontal and organ case. Ornamental copper cross suspended above. Original stained glass. (G.E. Ray A Historyof Chorleywood, 1969).

Listing NGR: TQ0230995829