Building record 210/2/2 - Crewe Green Church Hall

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1312964 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Formerly school, 1882 (on wall mounted sundial) now the Church Hall. Red brick with red tile roof, in Jacobean style. Single storey, 4 bays including facade gable east. There is also a lean-to porch entrance west. The front gable has central 6 board filled panel door, with semi-circular head, in stone ovolo moulded frame with keystone. This is flanked by rectangular stone dressed stained glass windows with weathered sill band. Door is surmounted by oak bracket and corbel supported segmental pediment with carved arms in tympanum. Clock in circular stone frame with 4 keystones in apex of gable with carved bargeboard. Gable is surmounted by diagonally set fleche with ogee tiled roof and weather vane. Three west bays are symmetrical about the second slightly projecting bay which has large stone dressed, glass covered, stone carved panel depicting "Time rewarding industry and punishing sloth". Above there is a tablet inscribed "What shall we render unto the Lord". This is surmounted by a brick scroll pediment containing emblems of the Crewe Estate. The bay terminates in a stack like structure, with octagonal piers, flanking sundial with the inscription "use well thy time" and the date. The centre west bay is flanked by diaper work and double mullion stone windows with high transome and heads above eaves in timber framed bracketted gabled dormers with cove-jettied apex. Moulded cast iron eaves gutter on boxed fascia, single pilaster panelled stack and crested ridge. The west lean-to has Jacobean style, pilaster-mullion three light windows, flanking a pair of three panel, board filled, doors in timber framed gabled porch. The ends of the lean-to are also timber framed.

<2> Pevsner N & Hubbard E, 1971, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, p.191 (Book). SCH3078.

The school is dated 1882 and is bad Elizabethan. It carries a copy of the relief of "Time rewarding industry and punishing sloth" whose original is in Crewe Hall.