Listed Buildings
in Stoke-on-Trent and area
Hill Top Sunday
School, Burslem
Area
Burslem |
Street
Westport Road |
Heritage No.
27a |
Grade
II |
Date Listed
19 April 1972 |
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Building:
Hill Top Methodist Church
School |
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Location:
STOKE ON TRENT
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Description:
1837 Brick with stone dressings, only portico remains |
This
impressive building was built in 1836 on the corner of Westport Road
and Hall Street.
Closed in January 1977, a fire caused widespread damage in 1983.
Beyond repair the main body was demolished in 1987 but the dramatic
front portico remains (and is a listed building)
Burslem Sunday
School
Known locally as
'Hill Top' as it stands at the top of Westport Road.
Situated between Wade Heaths and Enoch Woods Potteries.
photo: Steve Birks - Oct 1999
Portico of Hill Top
Methodist Sunday School
photo:
©
Mr Brian Peach -
Oct 2000
Portico, all that survives of former methodist
church, built as Burslem Sunday School in 1836 by Samuel Parch.
Stone.
Raised on a projecting basement, with
balustrading and steps from street level. 8 Doric columns
support entablature, with central blocking course inscribed
"Burslem Sunday School". Behind the portico, the paired former
doorways are now blocked, with pediment cases.
(The Buildings of England: N. Pevsner:
Staffordshire: Harmondsworth.
Arnold
Bennett referred to Burslem Sunday School
in his novels set in the Potteries.
photo: Steve Birks - Feb 2001
more on Hill
Top Sunday School
more
on the Hilltop Chapel
  
next: Wade Heath
Pottery, Westport Road, Burslem
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