Description

SO 7225-7325 NEWENT BROAD STREET
(south side)

13/88 United Reformed Church

GV II

Formerly Congregational Chapel, now United Reformed Church. 1846.
Ashlar face to road, English bond brick behind, with stone
dressings; slate roof. Three-bay, gable to road. Symmetrical
facade, moulded plinth, small octagonal clasping corner turrets in
2 stages. Door up 5 stone steps and half landing, cast-iron
balusters to railings. Double wooden doors with intersecting blind
tracery, 2-centred arch. Moulded surround, with crocketed ogee
hoodmould. Either side a 2-light stone mullion and transom window,
cinquefoiled heads to lights with quatrefoil between, ogee-shaped
hoodmould with floriate finial, patterned leaded lights. Two-light
mullioned window, head same pattern, in centre above door.
Battlemented gable parapet rising from octagonal finials at eaves;
octagonal apex finial, with pendant. Moulded string with floral
plaques at intervals below. Buttressed sides, windows as front,
but no hoodmould; stone dentil eaves. Sunday school added at rear.
Internally panelled, timber ceiling; gallery over internal porch.
(D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)

Listing NGR: SO7214725890

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26467089

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)