Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8563NW WHITING STREET
639-1/15/735 (West side)
12/07/72 United Reformed Church
(Formerly Listed as:
WHITING STREET
(West side)
Congregational Church)

GV II

United Reformed Church, formerly the Congregational Church,
originally built as an Independent Chapel. Late C17/early C18
core; interior reconstructed in 1804; enlarged 1869 and
refronted. Render to sides and rear; white brick front with
stone dressings. C20 tiled roofs, steeply pitched and hipped
to the older part, with a gabled projection on the east
linking with the C19 front.
EXTERIOR: the south side has a 2-storey range of 3 cross
windows, all with diamond leaded panes. The east front is in a
Victorian early Perpendicular style, the centre nave gabled,
with a carved finial at the apex and stepped and gabled
buttresses, the sides with a plain parapet and string course.
A large 4-light central window has curvilinear tracery and is
flanked by 2 tiers of 2-light windows in the aisles, the upper
windows with arched heads and cusped tracery, the lower in the
same Tudor style as the adjacent Sunday School building (qv)
with flat arches and hood-moulds. Below the central window the
wide entrance doorway with a 4-centred arch has moulded
spandrels with circular trefoil cusping. Boarded double door
with ornate wrought-iron hinges.
INTERIOR: galleried on all 4 sides, the fronts moulded, with
sunk panels; supported on cast-iron columns. At the west end,
a typical arrangement with the organ at the back of the
gallery, which is embellished by an upper arcade of 3
semicircular arches supported by square panelled columns;
decorative plasterwork in the intermediate spandrels. The
central pulpit is approached by stairs on each side.

Listing NGR: TL8531163947

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26425568

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)