Victoria Hall

BARROW IN FURNESS

SD26NW RAWLINSON STREET 708-1/6/118 Victoria Hall 21/03/91

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Formerly known as: St Mark's Sunday School RAWLINSON STREET. Sunday schools and function hall now disused. Dated 1888. By Paley and Austin of Lancaster. Red brick in English bond with some red sandstone dressings, graduated slate roofs. Irregular plan having 2-storey 2:3:2:1-bay facade with wings to rear-centre and rear-right. Original transomed casements with glazing bars throughout. Entrance in single-bay projection on far right has recessed double doors and side windows under lintel inscribed 'VICTORIA HALL'; moulded brick cornice pedimented over the door, single window above has projecting stone sill and cambered arch. The rest of the facade is symmetrical about a 3-bay gable; ground floor below pavement level in light-well with railings. Segmentally-arched ground-floor windows with brick hoodmoulds; similar 1st-floor windows without hoodmoulds, the windows flanking the centre being taller. Central bay has a 2-storey, curved projection with 2 square-headed ground-floor windows beneath drip course; shield plaque inscribed 'ST MARKS SCHOOLS 1888' beneath 3 first-floor windows having curved sills and lintels to 3-light casements with leaded and stained glass including biblical figure; radially-glazed transom lights. Semi-conical roof on cornice which carries across to the kneelers of the coped gable; from this roof rise 2 pilasters which support a triangular pediment with oculus in tympanum and ball finial. Right end of main roof and entrance projection are hipped with finials. Rear: gable of central wing has attic windows on 2 levels and is abutted by 2 hipped-roof projections. Each side of the main roof has twin, gabled dormers. INTERIOR not inspected. Paley and Austin submitted plans for this scheme as early as 1875, various enlargements were passed for which they received payments in 1881 and 1889 (Cumbria Archives, Barrow).

Listing NGR: SD2002669616