Site:

Park House, Evesham Street, Town Centre

Now Demolished

Grid Reference:    

SP 0409 6717

Description:

United Methodist Church, now community centre. 1833, rebuilt 1899. Brick with stone dressings and slate roof behind parapets with corbelled kneelers to main roof. 2 storeys. Rectangular plan of roughly 6 bays with gabled wings projecting from fifth bay as transepts and vestibule and porch wing at east end slightly lower in height with porches in angles. Perpendicular style. Pilaster buttresses and angled corner buttresses with offsets. Upper level windows have quoined surrounds. 5-light mullion and transom east window (second row of lights from the base are blind) with moulded cornice. Stone bands in east gables. Angled porches have flat roofs behind stone parapets, four-centred archways with quoined surrounds and ogee-arched hood-moulds with finials. Side elevations have cross-casements at basement level, with south side having two entrances with glazed lean-to canopies; at upper level are two 3- light mullion and transom windows and two single-light windows with a continuous sill band. Gable ends of wings have a 4-light casement at basement level and a 6-light mullion and transom window and sill band at upper level. In the sixth bay are a single-light casement at basement level and a mullion and transom window at the upper level. At the west end there is an external chimney and a row of 6-light casements on the upper level and two 2-light casements and an inserted door at basement level. Interior now partitioned into separate uses. A low wall with a moulded coping and rebuilt octagonal gate piers and also a run of iron railings enclose the site along Evesham Street. .

Significance:

This building is no longer part of our town, having been demolished in 2007. Its included to show how quickily the townscape can change an irreplacable losses made. 

History:

This building........