Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
16648
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/02/1996  
Date of Amendment
29/02/1996  
Name of Property
Universal Pentecostal Church  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Powys  
Community
Welshpool  
Town
 
Locality
Welshpool  
Easting
322134  
Northing
307539  
Street Side
W  
Location
Above Mount Street, adjacent to Christ Church churchyard.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
History: Built as a school associated with Christ Church, c1840-50, and comprising school wing with master's house alongside. Now used as a church. Description: Roughly coursed and squared Welshpool granite with ashlar dressings, and slate roof. Yellow brick gable end stacks, and yellow terracotta axial stack on master's house: this has 3 shafts, with vertical chevron and twist mouldings. Iron vents on roof of school wing. L-plan, with former school master's house occupying the S wing. 3-light stone mullioned windows with heavy latticed panes flank the chamfered segmentally arched doorway. 2-light mullioned dormer windows in coped gables above. The former school wing adjoins at right-angles: a lean-to pentice runs along its inner face: this has 2-bay arcade with 4-centred arches, and a higher arch in gabled porch to the E. Latticed windows within. Gable end has main window set high: tall 3-light mullioned and transomed window over 3 single light windows, all with heavy latticed panes. 2 similar windows in N elevation, though one renewed. Included as a well-detailed mid C19 school which is part of a group with Christ Church  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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