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Former Parish church, no longer in use, and church hall, in use as a nursery. It has also been called West and St Columba's Parish Church and East United Free Church. The church was built in 1856 by J, W H and J M Hay ('The Hays of Liverpool'), architects, and the hall was built in 1897 by T M Cappon, architect. It is shown on the 1st edition OS map as an L-plan church with a projection on the north-east elevation and another on the south-east end elevation, and is called 'East Free Church'. On the 2nd edition OS map the church has been extended to the south-west and a hall added in the angle, and it is named 'East U.F. Church'. The church consists of a striking tower, attached nave and a hall complex to the north-west. The tower was built with coursed rubble sandstone blocks, while the nave was built with random rubble, arranged into rough patterns. The surrounds and corner stones (quoins) are in fine ashlar sandstone blocks. The high kerb roof of the nave has noticeably large slates. The buttressed flank elevation facing Southesk Street (north-east) has a projecting porch and four two-light windows, with a tall two-light window rising into a gablet. The south-west flank is similar, with five two-light windows, the one closest to the tower rising into a gablet. The tower is very large and elaborate for a fairly small church, with large diagonal buttresses. The pointed arch doorway is deeply moulded, with four stages of moulded courses supported by attached columns and capitals. The inner doorway has deeply carved ogee moulding. Surrounding the doorway is a thin hoodmould supported by carved figurehead stops. Above the doorway is a large, four-light pointed-arch window with interlocking tracery and diamond glazing. There is a small pointed-arch window at the belfry stage on all four sides. The octagonal stone spire has two courses of lucarnes (window-like openings), the lower ones with dormers and tracery, and the upper within tiny gablets. Attached on the west side of the tower is a small stair tower with slit windows, which gives access to a gallery inside. The rear gable of the church is rubble-built, with a simple, very large, pointed-arch window with no tracery. The hall is set back to the west in the open court. It is constructed from snecked sandstone rubble, with a slated roof on bracketed eaves with red ridge tiles, fleche and a weathercock. There is a four-light geometric window in the south gable. The church was sold in 1992, and became a furniture and interiors showroom, but has been disused since 2003/4.
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