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Unitarian Church — Saint Stephen's Green

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Unitarian Church — Saint Stephen's Green
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Formerly attached, now freestanding L-plan Gothic Revival Unitarian church, built 1861-63, entrance porch to south-east corner, recent extension to north gable. Raised above street level over former school and meeting rooms located in undercroft, now used as a theatre, the Damer Hall. Pitched slate roof with ashlar stone verges topped by cross finial to east; original profile cast-iron rainwater goods on chamfered ashlar limestone eaves course. Tower rises to slender spire over open work belfry stage having cusped openings over slender octagonal limestone shafts. Uncoursed squared quarry faced granite walls with sandstone dressings; exposed calp limestone to side elevations. Buttresses with offsets to centre of façade with cusped statutory niche over carved gargoyle. Pointed arch window openings with decorative tracery and paviors with carved stops. Decorative quatrefoil cusped lights irregularly arranged. Leaded glass with coloured glass margin lights; some decorative stained glass. Pointed arch entrance with foliated moulding on slender engaged shafts, trefoil cusped opening to doorway. Pierced parapet over timber sheeted door with ornate strap hinges, accessed by four stone steps. Shoulder-arched doorway to either side of central buttress, each having cusped pointed arched overlight. Foliated iron work to light on principal elevation.

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