Pokesdown United Reformed Church and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Church, school. 2 related planning applications.
Pokesdown United Reformed Church and Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- veiled-flue-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth East MP: Tom Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Church, school
- Address
- Pokesdown United Reformed Church and Sunday School, Southbourne Road, BH5 2LA
- OS grid reference
- SZ 128 923
- Coordinates
- 50.73078, -1.81995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pokesdown United Reformed Church and Sunday School is a former Congregational church built in 1820 and rebuilt in 1895-1896, reflecting a Regency style. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring stucco and buff brick dressings. Its pedimented front is distinguished by giant Ionic columns positioned between antae, which support an entablature. The tall windows are framed in shouldered stucco and are topped with relieving arches. The church has hipped annexes with pilaster-strip quoins and a grey brick eaves cornice, which contain stucco doorways adorned with a bulgy frieze and cornice, as well as paired round-arched windows with red terracotta hoodmoulds and sills. The flanks include lean-to aisles that have similar pilaster strips, eaves, and round-arched windows, along with a continuous clerestory strip featuring arched glazing bars. At the rear, there is an attached hall that includes some stucco pilasters and hoodmoulds on the north side, and a gabled porch on the south side. The church is set within an old graveyard.
Local climate
Pokesdown United Reformed Church and Sunday School receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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