Elim Pentacostal Church

Heritage listing

Details This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/04/2019 CHARLOTTE STREET (south side) Elim Pentecostal Church 15/02/2007 GV II* Church. Dated 1854. By HE and AS Goodridge. MATERIALS: limestone ashlar, with leaded and Welsh slate roofs. PLAN: the church is ingeniously planned on a tapering site, with an outwardly centrally planned chapel actually comprising a tapering worship space, narrowing towards the pulpit with a vestry behind. There is a screen front to the street, with a centrally planned decagonal church within. STYLE: Lombardic/Romanesque style. EXTERIOR: the façade and secondary elevations of the church are of two storeys, with a screen front to street, incorporating a central gabled section flanked by short wings ending in towers carried up for further storey. The ground floor has blind Romanesque arcade of five bays, set on a plinth incorporating five wrought-iron lattice-work vents, flanked by an additional bay and then by a Lombardic porch projecting forward below gable at each end of facade. The upper storey has large central arched recess flanked by columns in-antis (recessed) with a rope order. This device frames a rose window (repeated opposite on the south side) of twelve-lights, with inscriptions in corners, `PERCY CHAPEL' and date `MDCCCLIV'. Strip pilasters frame and articulate the upper storey, with a corbel table at eaves level. The rest of the walling blank, except for a single round headed window over either porch lighting the stair to the galleries. The towers have moulded stringcourses at both sill and springing level for windows, paired within arched recesses infilled with delicate masonry open work divided by colonettes with composite capitals. The towers are finished with a heavy projecting cornice and pyramidal slate roofs.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.