Description

HAVERHILL

TL6745 HAMLET ROAD 816-1/5/9 (North East side) 09/05/73 Schoolroom and Meeting Hall (Formerly Listed as: HAMLET ROAD (North East side) Former Old Independent Church now schoolroom and Meeting Hall)

GV II

Congregational church, now meeting hall. 1840. Gault brick with red-brick dressings and roof of concrete tiles. EXTERIOR: entrance in south gable: central gabled porch with shouldered parapet contains arched door flanked by single lancet windows. Main elevation with one tall lancet right and left of porch: over porch is stepped triplet of lancets with oculus above. Saw-toothed cornice to parapeted gable. Surviving original windows have intersecting tracery in the head. 6-bay returns, each bay separated by buttress piers and pierced by multiple-paned windows to ground floor and Y-traceried upper windows. INTERIOR: galleries to all four sides supported on cast-iron reeded columns rising to cast-iron balustrading. Scissor-braced roof, boarded. Raised dais at north end with 3 bays of blind arcading with modified stiff-leaf decoration.



Listing NGR: TL6752445182

External Links

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