Listed Building record MDO15459 - Throop United Reformed Church and Sunday School, Muscliffe Lane, Bournemouth

Built as Congregational Church in 1819. Regency Gothic style with stucco front. Sunday School attached to rear, built 1830 and rebuilt and enlarged in 1860 in Italian-medieval style.

Congregational chapel built in 1819, now a United reform Church. Stucco front, Regency Gothic, with 3 windows to gallery of Y-tracery, over Victorian lean-to narthex with gabled doorway. Single-storey annexe with doorway and another Y-tracery window. Sides have 2 tiers of uniform Y-tracery window in whitewashed brick, bars of Y-timber, horizontal bars iron. Attached at rear and at right-angles, Sunday School of 1830, rebuilt and enlarged 1860 in red-brick Italian-medieval. <1>

18l9, originally Congregational. Stucco front, Regency Gothic, with 3 windows to gallery of Y-tracery, over Victorian lean-to narthex with gabled doorway. Single-storey annexe with doorway and another Y-tracery window. Sides have 2 tiers of uniform Y-tracery window in whitewashed brick, bars of Y-timber, horizontal bars iron. Attached at rear and at right-angles, Sunday School of 1830, rebuilt and enlarged 1860 in red-brick Italian-medieval: pedimental gable with notched brick outline, walls with vitrified headers, windows on flank round-arched and in pairs, separated by pilaster strips. Annexe at right-angles with round-arched pair and 'porthole' in gable. Interior of chapel unspoilt: walls pale blue, windows deeply splayed, thin cornice, deep coving to ceiling outlined by roll-moulding. West gallery with panelled front (pilasters and coved cornice) on 2 chamfered columns. East wall has tripartite panel with arched centre, no doubt originally for Creed and Commandments. Victorian pews, pitchpine. <2>

<1> Stell, C, 1991, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses in South-West England, 138 (Monograph). SDO11597.

<2> Department of the Environment, 15-Feb-1994, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994 (Scheduling record). SWX4461.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1486862 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 29 2024 4:41PM