Description

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WATER LANE
(South-West Side)

United Reformed Church
TL 4821 NE: 1/89

II

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1860 by Poulton and Woodman. Formerly a Congregation Church. Yellow stock brick with
Bath stone dressings. Slate roof. Two storeys. Romanesque style with Italianate
details. Double apse plan, south front with 2 projecting towers, pierced parapets on
top, flanking single storey 3-arched loggia with similar parapet. Rusticated arches
on loggia and tower ground floors, the latter with stone plate tracery. Continuous
triplets of round-headed lancets on ground and first floors of main block. Interior
has segmental roof with plain cast iron beams. Double galleries around 3 sides, lower
one on spiralled cast iron columns, upper one on wrought iron brackets and with
elaborate cast iron balcony. Large organ and pulpit in centre north side. Imposing
building in open area east of North Street. (Pevsner 2nd Ed Rev (1977) 102).

Listing NGR: TL4875421536

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26396478

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)