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church/chapel — John's Place

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Detached two-bay single-storey former Presbyterian church, built in 1885, with four-bay nave, projecting entrance porch to side and vestry to rear. Now in use as library. Fronts directly onto street. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and cast-iron rainwater goods. Cut stone gable coping and eaves course. Snecked limestone walls with plinth course and cut stone buttresses to corners. Double lancets with engaged columns and roses within pointed arched window openings with tooled stone arches to gable. Mandorla shaped traceried window below apex of entrance gable. Rose window to southern gable. Paired lancets to side elevations. Projecting gable-fronted porch with cast-iron finial, pointed-arched door opening having tooled stone surround and timber battened double door with wrought-iron hinges. Building flanked by random course stone plinth wall with limestone coping surmounted by cast-iron railings.

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