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ILKESTON AND DISTRICT HERITAGE
ARCHITECTURE
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DALE ABBEY: VILLAGE
Apart from the Abbey ruins and church, other old buildings which are of interest are Abbey House and Manor House, a pair of Medieval cottages incorporating remains (possibly the kitchen) of the Abbey; Medieval outbuildings behind the Methodist church which were probably its gatehouse; Friar's House (15th, 17th and 18th centuries) constructed of course square grit-stone, close studded timber framing and red brick; and a thatched, weather boarded barn on Tattles Hill.

DALE ABBEY: ALL SAINTS CHURCH
(Grade 1)
The present parish church is believed to have been the infirmary of the Abbey. It is one of the smallest and oldest of English churches, under the same roof as a dwelling house, formerly an inn. The interior contains 17th century box pews, a gallery, a pulpit of 1634 raised higher than the altar, which is fitted with doors and drawers for communion plates. Late 13th century wall paintings still survive. The masonry of the nave is Norman with late additions. The upper storey is perpendicular in style and has an open timber roof.

DALE ABBEY: CAT AND FIDDLE WINDMILL
(Grade 1 Private Property)
A post mill, with a date of 1788 on woodwork but on an earlier mill site. The only surviving post mill in Derbyshire.

DALE ABBEY: THE ABBEY
(Grade 2 and Scheduled Ancient Monument)
After several unsuccessful attempts to establish a Priory at Dale in the 12th century, the bestowal of the town of Stanley on the Premonstratensian order by Geofrey de Salicosa and his wife Matilda ensured a more secure and permanent foundation for William de Grendon. A new abbey, known as the Church of St.Mary of Stanley Park was begun in 1204. The main part of the church, chapter house, common room and claustral buildings were completed soon after with various extensions, the most extensive improvements and additions particularly to the church and cloisters being made under Abbott Lawrence in the later 13th century.
The general plan of the Abbey as far as is known is of a square cloister attached to the south of the main church building with a guest hall on its west side, refectory to the south and chapter house and sacristy to the east.
All that remains today are the arch of the east window which originally contained geometric tracery, with remnants of walls and pillars and the remains of the gatehouse to the rear of the Gateway Centre. See also A Brief History of Dale Abbey

ILKESTON: THE WELEDA BUILDING
(Heanor Road)
Originally built and designed by George Neames in 1939 for Michael House (a Rudolf Steiner school) in a distinctive architectural style which is locally believed to have been designed to avoid the the use of right angles.

ILKESTON: ILKESTON SCHOOL
(King George Avenue)
Although surrounded by a hotchpotch of modern buildings, the original school is distinctive. Designed by G H Widdows and built just before the Great War, it is brick mostly cement rendered, with sandstone dressings. Single storey, it is quadrangular enclosing a detached octagonal hall. The hall is surmounted by a large concrete dome, open internally to a lantern which has eight circular windows.

ILKESTON: THE TOWN HALL
(The Market Place. Grade 2)
A red brick Italianate style building of 1867-8 by R C Sutton of Nottingham. The front elevation has distinctive sandstone dressings with yellow and blue dressings to the ground floor window arches. At the first floor in front of the centre window is a bold stone balcony on carved brackets with open-work balustrade. There are 20th century extensions of little note to the rear on the site of the former open-air swimming baths.

ILKESTON: TOLL BAR HOUSE
(White Lion Square)
This building, now occupied by the Primary Care Trust, was erected in 1930 for the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Electric Power Company. Designed by Ilkeston architect, Harry Tatham Sudbury, with two storeys in a stripped classical style and incorporating art deco motifs, the building had a third storey added in 1937. The original entrance with revolving doors survives.

ILKESTON: BALL'S FACTORY
(Burr Lane. Grade 2)
Four storey brick built hosiery/lace factory built c. 1845 but in a Georgian style. Red Brick with cast iron windows and a distinctive central pediment and clock.

ILKESTON: DALBY HOUSE
(High Street. Grade 2)
Home to the Erewash Museum. Dalby House is a fascinating example of a building which over the centuries has been transformed by a series of extensions. According to an early map there was a house on this site in 1598. In the 1780s the three storey Georgian section was added and then in the 19th century there were further large extensions at the back, front and to the side.

ILKESTON: RITZ CINEMA
(South Street. Grade 2)
Built as the Ritz Cinema in a typical late 1930s style by Reginald Cooper of Nottingham in 1938. The exterior is a fine example of the Odeon style and is perhaps the finest surviving work of this important cinema architect. Much of the original interior remains including much art deco plaster work. Original seating survives on the circle and the offices and projection suite are original.

ILKESTON: SCALA CINEMA
(Pimlico. Grade 2)
Ilkeston's first purpose built cinema by James Parsons and Sons of Bulwell (1913), believed to be the second oldest remaining purpose built cinema in the country. The style incorporates features of Edwardian, classical and art nouveau designs.

ILKESTON: NUMBERS 4 - 5 EAST STREET
Late 18th/early 19th century brick house, with remodelled stucco front. Formerly Ilkeston Court House where petty sessions were held.

ILKESTON: LITTLE HALLAM HALL
(Private property. Grade 2)
16th century timber faced house with a recessed brick porch and 18th century brick wing. Good interiors with 16th and 17th century panelling and early Georgian features.

ILKESTON: THE GABLES, LITTLE HALLAM
(Private property. Grade 2)
Early 18th century brick with decorative courses and two storey porch.

ILKESTON: ST.BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH
(Hallam Fields Road)
Erected in 1896 from red brick with stone dressings, by P Curry of Derby. The clock tower (Grade 2) with a saddle backed roof being added in 1905.

ILKESTON: THE NEW INN AND THE POPLAR INN
(Bath Street)
These two earlier public houses were altered into fine arts and crafts style buildings by architect Harry Tatham Sudbury in about 1904. (The Poplar and The New Inn.

ILKESTON: CHURCH INSTITUTE
(Market place)
The Church institute was designed by Henry James Kilford who was the Surveyor to the Local Board and later to the Borough Council. It was opened in 1884 and was built in red brick with stone dressings to the front elevation. The words 'Church Institute' are highlighted in terracotta lettering on the side wall in Market Street. Inside the main entrance porch there is a memorial tablet to nine members who died in the First World War and three who died in the Second.

ILKESTON: THE OLD POLICE STATION
(Wharnecliffe Road)
Built in 1906 and designed by H J Kilford. The front has Jacobean design influences and is of pressed red brick with Rowsley Stone dressings. The central entrance block is entirely of stone with an Oriel window above which there is a stone carving of the former Borough coat-of-arms. The police station also incorporated cells, an exercise yard and houses for the Superintendent and Inspector.

ILKESTON: OUR LADY AND ST.THOMAS OF HEREFORD ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
(Nottingham Road)
The present building was built around an older church between 1921 and the early 1930s. It is predominantly of Darley Dale stone with a slate roof. The architect was Charles W Hunt. The tower was the final part to be added and the 'praying hands' design of the spire is said to have been based on that of St.Dunstan-in-the-East in London.

ILKESTON: QUEEN'S STREET BAPTIST CHURCH
(Queen's Street. Grade 2)
Built in 1858 by C Stell. Round ended with tall windows.

ILKESTON: UNITED REFORM CHURCH
(Wharneclife Road. Grade 2)
Built in 1905 by Harry Tatham Sudbury in the art nouveau style with tall tower and copper spire.

ILKESTON: HALIFAX BANK
(Bath Street)
The building is unusual in that it has a splendid cast iron shop front which extends the full width of the building. A strong vertical emphasis is given to the upper storeys by the use of cream relief brickwork in the red mainly used. Also an interior cast iron balcony.

ILKESTON: BAPTIST CHAPEL
(South Street. Grade 2)
Built in 1784 for Baptists from Little Hallam. It had an internal gallery added shortly afterwards. Further extended in 1842.

ILKESTON: ST.MARY'S CHURCH
(Market Place. Grade 2)
Founded about 11150, the church was extended during the reign of Henry III (1217-21) by Nicholas de Cantelupe, a lord of the manor, whose tomb is in the chancel. The tower, which before 1714, supported a steepled spire was rebuilt in the Grecian style in 1731 and in the Gothic tradition by T L Walker, a pupil of the elder Pugin during a major reconstruction of the fabric in 1854-5. To facilitate an extension to the nave in 1909-10, the tower was taken down and rebuilt further to the west in its present position. See also A Brief History of St.Mary's.

ILKESTON: CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY
(Market Place. Grade 2)
The library was built in 1904 to an Edwardian 'Free Style' (Baroque) design by Hunter and Woodhouse of Belper. It is orange brick and ashlar with sandstone dressings and has a centrally projecting round-arched doorway. Above the entrance a stone panel is inscribed in relief - CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY - and between the first floor windows there are fine carved relief Art Nouveau panels.

KIRK HALLAM: ALL SAINTS CHURCH
(Grade 1)
A few Norman details including the font. Perpendicular tower.

MORLEY: TITHE BARN
(Grade 2)
Probably early 17th century, originally associated with the manor house or hall. Part of the upper floor was designed as a dovecote with brick nesting houses and has a four bay beam roof. The mullioned windows can be seen from the nearby footpath.

MORLEY: ST.MATTHEW'S CHURCH
(Grade 1)
Important church for its architecture, monuments and stained glass. Built in various stages between the 11th and 15th centuries. Monuments include several members of the Sacheverall family, including John Sacheverall killed in 1485 on Bosworth Field. The stained glass, mainly in the north chancel chapel, came originally from Dale Abbey. The late 19th century Grade 2 Listed Bateman mausoleum stands in the church yard.

STANLEY: THATCHED COTTAGE
(Grade 2)
A cruck cottage, one of only two thatched cottages in the borough. Mid 18th and 20th century exterior fabric. Internal structure dated to 15th and 16th centuries.

STANLEY: ST.ANDREW'S CHURCH
(Grade 2)
Mentioned as the Chapel of Stanley in the taxation roll of 1291. The small round-headed priest's doorway in the south wall, now blocked up, is a plain example of Norman work, showing clearly that there was a chapel here in the 12th century. A small lancet and some buttresses are from the 13th century building but eh church was mainly rebuilt c.1875.

STANTON: INSTITUTE
(Hallam Fields Road)
The social club for the nearby ironworks, designed by Harry Tatham Sudbury. Opened in 1937 by the Mayor Ernest Adams, at that time a Stanton employee. Typically art deco in style, with a number of original features still surviving, the building style was influenced by the design of an ocean liner. Used as a primary location for the BBC TV series 'Playing The Field'.

STANTON BY DALE: CHURCH OF ST.MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS
(Grade 2)
The chancel windows, north aisle, north and west windows date from around 1300 but the south door has a tympanum with a cross which may be Norman. Handsome south porch.

STANTON BY DALE: MIDDLEMORE ALMS HOUSES
(Grade 2)
Terrace of seven but now converted to five. The four nearest the church were built in 1711 with additional ones in 1735, 1829 and 1904. As each section is dated, they provide a fascinating guide to local brick development.

STANTON BY DALE: STANTON HALL
(Grade 2)
Mainly a 19th century building of red brick and stone, is known to have been the home in 1846 of Benjamin Smith "The Iron Master" who produced pig iron from locally occurring ores. The house is reputed to have been the first in the county to have electricity installed throughout.