1913 - The Bray Church of England Institute - Marhamchurch, Cornwall
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The Bray Church of England Institute, Marhamchurch, now used as the village hall, built in 1913.
Waymark Code: WMZBEY
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/14/2018
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The Bray Church of England Institute, Marhamchurch, now used as the village hall, built in 1913. It is centrally located at the top of Pinch Hill.
"The Bray Institute, belonging to the church but leased to trustees, is used for functions such as the Harvest Festival Supper and the Annual Church plant Sale and also recreational activities including coffee mornings, Brownies, a drop in centre for the under 18, Line Dancing, etc."
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"Church of England Institute, 1913, built for the Bray family of Langford Hill (q.v.). Squared stone brought to course with freestone and granite dressings. Slate roof. Arts and Crafts, free Tudor style. The building is on a corner site with a large entrance porch on the corner. Steeply-pitched deep roofs run north/south and west/east, gabled to the north, hipped to the east. Grand 2- storey gabled corner porch with moulded granite coping and rusticated granite kneelers surmounted by balls. Moulded 4-centre arched doorway with studded door with cover strips under square-headed hoodmould with label stops. Above the doorway an inscription panel 'The Bray Church of England Institute' with 3-light granite mullioned window above. Coat of arms above window contained in niche formed from pilasters supporting cornice, and volutes to either side of pilasters. Date panel in gable. Flanking wings to left and right have 3 square- headed, transomed stone mullioned windows, with leaded fixed lights and leaded casements, the tall central window rising into a gabled dormer with kneelers and moulded coping, wing to left is longer with buttresses with weatherings between the windows. North gable end has timber in upper part of gable carried on corbels. Tall stone lateral chimneys have slates peaked over flues. Granite posts with chains strung between each side of porch."
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