Greek Orthodox Church including walls, gate-piers and gates adjoining south east and north east is a Grade II listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 December 1991. Church.

Greek Orthodox Church including walls, gate-piers and gates adjoining south east and north east

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Country
England
Date first listed
6 December 1991
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a Greek Orthodox Church, formerly a Christian Science church, constructed between 1934 and 1935 by Herbert G Ibberson. It is situated on Recorder Road and includes brick walls, gate piers, and gates adjoining the south east and north east boundaries. The church is built of English bond buff-coloured brick, with slate roofs and parapeted gable ends.

The plan comprises a nave with narrow aisles, a readers’ platform in the chancel at the west end (originally intended as the liturgical east), flanked by readers’ rooms and a gallery at the east end. A staircase and porch are located on the south east corner. The architectural style is described as Arts and Crafts and Modern.

The east gable end, facing the street, features a tall lancet window with a pointed ogee arch formed from cut bricks, a weathered slate sill, and a large stone inscription below. A small round arch window is located in a single-storey block to the right, and a stair wing is on the left, also featuring a similar lancet window on its south gable and a porch in the angle with a round arch doorway. The north and south sides of the nave have narrow vertical pilaster-like brick strips containing tall lancets, each with a small light above and low aisles below, incorporating flint and brick chequerwork walls. A lower chancel features low, flat-roofed readers' rooms on either side. A slender, octagonal fleche tops the east end, with louvres and a copper-clad spire.

Inside, the walls are exposed rendered. Low, segmental arch arcades are under large blind, segmental arcades with polygonal piers that rise to the roof, together with deeply splayed lancets and small ogee lancets in the clerestory above. Corbels supporting lamps are located where the arches spring. A short, barrel-vaulted chancel is present, with doorways to the readers’ rooms on the left and right, featuring double ogee arches on deep splays. A cantilevered gallery is situated at the east end, with a boarded front. The roof is boarded, with steel trusses boxed in. The nave has a slightly sloping parquet floor.

Original readers’ desks, steps, and electric radiators remain. The external features include brick and flint chequered area walls flanking the east front, with small brick gate piers, steel gates, and overthrow.

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