Greenbank Mosque

Wills designed the former Castle Green Congregational Church in a polychromatic late-Romanesque Revival manner, prompted (as later summarised by Pevsner) by a wish to avoid both Gothic and "ugly barnlike plainness". It is a substantial polychrome-brick landmark, built in pale yellow brick articulated by broad red-brick bands and red dressings, with round arches used consistently for openings and panels. The elevations are organised in clear horizontal stages, the red bands reading as string courses, with tiers of narrow, round-headed windows grouped in pairs and threes; the long side wall is rhythmically punctuated by tall arched openings of similar section. Contemporary reporting at the…