Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church, Mitchell Memorial Hall, Tennant Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 3GD is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Belfast local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church, Mitchell Memorial Hall, Tennant Street, Belfast, Co Antrim, BT13 3GD
- WRENN ID
- weathered-plaster-cobweb
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Belfast
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Mitchell Memorial Hall is a two-storey red-brick Presbyterian church hall designed by David Wright Boyd and completed in 1954. It stands on the east side of Tennent Street in west Belfast, adjacent to Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church.
The building is rectangular on plan with a gabled front facing northwest, flanked by shallow breakfronts. A two-storey L-shaped linking block connects the hall to the adjoining church to the northeast. The structure is built of Flemish-bonded red brick on a rock-faced and chamfered ashlar sandstone plinth, with red sandstone dressings. The pitched natural slate roof features blue and black angled ridge tiles and raised sandstone verges. Rainwater goods are concealed behind a sandstone parapet, with plastic downpipes.
The northwest gable front comprises a wide central bay with three large staged windows at first floor above an arcaded group of five windows at ground floor. The flanking breakfronts each contain one window per floor. Round-headed metal-framed leaded lattice lights in plain reveals with brick heads and projecting sandstone sills are a distinctive feature. Square-headed four and three-light metal casements appear on the southeast elevation.
Two inscribed granite plaques are set into the central bay. The first reads "MITCHELL / MEMORIAL HALL / 1954". The second commemorates the original building's destruction: "THIS STONE WAS UNVEILED / ON 18TH SEPTEMBER 1954 BY / SAMUEL JOHN GRAHAM / THE ORIGINAL BUILDING WAS / DESTROYED BY ENEMY ACTION ON / 15TH 16TH APRIL 1941".
The two-storey linking block to the left of the central feature is two bays wide, with the left bay projecting slightly and containing three windows at each floor. The right bay serves as the entrance, with two windows above a recessed pair of original twelve-panelled timber doors with a metal fanlight in a Romanesque-style moulded surround. Access is via two concrete steps and a ramp with metal handrail.
The southeast elevation displays irregularly arranged window openings at ground and first floor levels. The right-hand linking bay comprises two flat-roof blocks; the left projects and contains windows at each floor, while the exposed northwest section has small casement windows at each level. A double-leaf twelve-panelled timber door at ground floor left is surmounted by a concrete canopy and approached by four concrete steps. The right block has a window at first floor left over a rendered lean-to shed with artificial slate roof and double-leaf timber-sheeted doors to the northwest. The southwest elevation contains eight window openings at each floor, diminishing in number at first floor, with two smaller window openings at the right (square-headed at ground floor).
The hall is set back slightly from Tennent Street and laid with concrete to the front. It is enclosed by red-brick walling topped with sandstone coping and metal railings, with metal latch gates at the entrance. An enclosed yard to the northeast is accessed via Langley Street through iron gates with square iron piers topped with decorative scrolled and finialled metal caps. The building sits in a residential setting surrounded by nineteenth and twentieth-century terraced housing, abutting Crumlin Road Presbyterian Church to the northeast.
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