Listed Building record MDO15587 - Pokesdown United Reformed Church and Sunday School, Southbourne Road, Bournemouth

Former Congregational chapel, originally built 1820, then rebuilt 1895-6 echoing Regency style. Red brick with stucco and buff brick dressings. Attached hall at rear. Set in old graveyard.

Formerly Congregational, built 1820, rebuilt 1895-6 echoing Regency style. Red brick with stucco and buff brick dressings. Pedimented front with giant Ionic columns between antae supporting entablature, tall windows in shouldered stucco frames carried up as relieving arches. Hipped annexes with pilaster-strip quoins and eaves cornice of grey brick, containing stucco doorways with bulgy frieze and cornice and paired round-arched windows with red terracotta hoodmoulds and sills. Flanks have lean-to aisles with similar pilaster strips, eaves and round-arched windows, continuous clerestory strip with arched glazing bars. Attached hall at rear with some stucco pilasters and hoodmoulds to north, gabled porch to south. Set in old graveyard.

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Jun 10 2019 3:54PM