St James'S Church Hall

POOLE

SZ0090SE CHURCH STREET 958-1/17/15 (South East side) 28/05/74 St James's Church Hall

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Formerly known as: St James' Sabbath School CHURCH STREET. Sunday school, now church hall. 1862, altered 1956. Red brick with stone dressings, coloured diaper work, partly rendered, tiled roof. Gothic Revival style. Rectangular plan. 2 storeys; 7-window range. Articulated by full-height buttresses with steep weathered caps, plinth and moulded first-floor cill band with moulded cornice. Shallow 2-centre-arched end entrances with chamfered splayed surrounds, and double doors to right-hand end, open left-hand mid C20 through passage. 2-centre-arched windows with mid-C20 glazing. INTERIOR has a meeting room with coved plaster ceiling and moulded cornice, and a gallery in the S extension with a panelled front on fluted cast-iron columns. HISTORICAL NOTE: founded as the St James' Sabbath School, the Gothic style chosen for the exterior is more characteristic of earlier C19 Commissioners' Gothic than the Ecclesiological Gothic developed from the 1840s. Hit by a Second World War bomb, and subsequently restored. Originally had matching arched doorways at both ends. (Hillier J: A Portfolio of Old Poole: Poole: 1983-: 29).

Listing NGR: SZ0084990399