Kingdom Hall Of The Jehovah'S Witnesses

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.