Survey Data
Reg No
41402510
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Church/chapel
In Use As
Restaurant
Date
1840 - 1845
Coordinates
285237, 313602
Date Recorded
01/05/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Free-standing gable-fronted Presbyterian church, dated 1842, having three-bay side elevations, and recent two-storey extension to rear (north). Now in use as crafts and coffee shop. Pitched slate roof with cut limestone copings and cast-iron rainwater goods. Roughcast rendered walls having smooth rendered plinth, quoins, and string courses. Smooth rendered quatrefoil moulding to upper level of front (south) elevation. Inscribed limestone date plaque to gable-front 'Broomfield Presbyterian Church erected A.D. 1842'. Pointed-arch window openings having timber Y-traceried frames with small-pane glazing and stone sills. Main entrance consists of recessed pointed-arch door opening with smooth rendered surround and timber tongued-and-grooved double-leaf door. Church is set within site containing graveyard. Square-plan smooth rendered gate piers to front (south) boundary with metal gates and recent timber fence. Interior refurbished interior having recent gallery to east, south and west sides. Moulded ogee-arch above elliptical-arch recess to north wall. Exposed timber king-post roof structure with struts, and having recent tongue-and-groove timber boarding above. Smooth rendered walls with tongue and groove timber panelling to dado level.
Appraisal
This building is a typical example of a mid-nineteenth-century Presbyterian Church and is representative of the architecture of the community. Despite renovations in the late twentieth century, the church retains its original form and much of its early character. The surrounding graveyard further enhances the picturesque setting of the building, with a combination of crosses and curved and rectangular headstones. The graveyard is no longer in use.