Former Church Of St Andrew

TORQUAY

SX9263 TORWOOD GARDENS ROAD 885-1/18/278 (South side) Former Church of St Andrew

GV II

Presbyterian church, later Christian Scientist church, now youth club. 1862 (Pevsner). Local grey Torquay limestone with freestone dressings; slate roofs. PLAN: Rectangular on plan with central gabled porch block facing Torwood Gardens and projecting tower alongside to right. EXTERIOR: Partly obscured by scaffolding at time of survey. Crow-stepped gables to main block, saddleback tower; porch block and stepped gables to flying buttress. Show front has a projecting gabled porch with a pair of shoulder arched doorways with trefoil-pierced tympana and pierced trefoil in gable. 3-light plate traceried window to main block above, flanked by 2-light windows. Massive flying buttress to left of main block with one-window bay beyond with angle buttresses, a ground floor shoulder-headed window and an arched one-light window above. Lean-to block between porch and flying buttress with 2 shoulder-headed lights. 3-stage saddleback tower to right with angle buttresses with one and 2-light windows, some with cusped heads. INTERIOR: 4 hammer-beam trusses with arch braces. Fittings removed. A striking design, prominently sited. (Buildings of England: Cherry B: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.852).

Listing NGR: SX9230963493