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Former Melville Carden Place Church, opened in April 1882, designed by Robert Wilson of Ellis and Wilson, and originally named Carden Place United Free Church. It is in gothic style on a cruciform plan wit a 2-tower facade. It is built of tooled coursed grey granite ashlar, with contrasting light grey long and short dressings, finely finished to the margins. The roof is of grey slate with lead ridges, coped stone skews with moulded skewputts, coped granite stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. The principal, South, elevation is asymmetrical with a gabled central bay enclosed by square-plan towers to left and right, and two flights of steps swept up to central doorway flanked by gabletted piers surmounted by decorative iron lamp standards with glass globes. To the East is a 5-stage engaged tower with lancet windows, and a spire, and to the West a 4-stage engaged tower. The East elevation is asymmetrical; of 5-bays with a 3-bay block adjoining to North, the bays each with three windows at basement level with 2-light traceried windows above. The North elevation is largely obscured by the piend-roofed addition advanced at ground and basement floors, but has a curved apse with stained glass windows. The West elevation, like the East, is 5 bay with 2-light traceried windows. On the OS 1st edition the site is occupied by a house and garden. In 1989 the congregation moved to the nearby Queen's Cross Church, and Carden Place was converted to offices and studios, creating 2 floors in the former nave and aisles. Some leaded and stained glass windows survive. It retains a hammerbeam rood with crown post details. The boundary walls are of coped granite surmounted by simple railings, with squat square-plan granite gatepiers to the Southeast of the church with decorative pyramidal caps.
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NJ90NW0602 - CARDEN PLACE UNITED FREE CHURCH