West Memorial Hall [SEP] architect
West Memorial Hall
The West Memorial Hall, or West Memorial Institute, is a Victorian Grade II listed building at 7-9 Gosbrook Road, Caversham, Berkshire, designed by Alfred Waterhouse. The Hall is a former Baptist Free Church that has now been converted to apartments.
Architecture.
The Hall was designed by the noted Victorian architect Alfred Waterhouse in 1865-66 in the Gothic style. It is positioned gable end to the street and built in red brick with blue brick decorative features including bands above and below
An account of that first anniversary followed in the November edition. 10 Bahá'ís attended the gravesite Sep 30th with flowers and prayers for an hour and a service was held the following Sunday in a hall which was also the anniversary of `Abdu'l-Bahá's visit and the assemblage again returned to the gravesite at sunset. A memorial comment was then published from Thomas Kelly Cheyne. In February 1914, an excerpt from Chase's book "The Bahai Revelation" was published in "Star of the West". The anniversary was noted