Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1994. Church. 5 related planning applications.

Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses

WRENN ID
dim-cornice-root
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cumberland
Constituency
Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1994
Type
Church
Address
Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses, Charlotte Street, CA2 5BT
OS grid reference
NY 396 555
Coordinates
54.89124, -2.94177
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses is a congregational church located on Charlotte Street in Carlisle. The foundation stone is dated April 30, 1860, and was laid by Ralph Nicholson of Halifax, with an extension dated August 5, 1878, also by Nicholson. The building is constructed from quarry-faced calciferous sandstone and features flush quoins and flying buttresses. It has graduated greenslate roofs, with a pyramidal center topped by a finial and ashlar ridge chimney stacks.

The structure includes a three-storey central octagonal drum flanked by two-storey wings with three and four bays, along with a further three-bay extension on the left. The drum has three faces at the front and rear, each featuring pointed arched blind ground floor windows and five-light first floor lancets, with tracery windows above in gabled half dormers; however, one dormer on each side has an uninscribed stone panel instead. The wings contain pointed arched doorways, with the right-side entrance accessed by steps and set within a gabled stone porch. The extension has a similar door in a gabled porch and lancets.

Inside, the lecture room has apsidal ends, lancets, and traceried windows. The interior of the drum has had all fixtures and fittings removed, although the galleries remain, boxed in with a false ceiling. Beaty's 1905 guide notes that "the arrangements of the interior are not satisfactory." Plans for the extension can be found in the Cumbria County Record Office.

Local climate

Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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