Description

SOUTH STREET 1. 5l91 (East Side) United Reformed Church. Gateway to south of United Reformed Church. SY 6990 7/291 II 2. 1856-7. Architects : Poulton and Woodman of Reading. Former Congregational Church. Portland rubble with ashlars dressings. Nave and 2 aisles with west end onto street and separated by buttresses with setbacks crowned by tall pointed finials. South aisle projects very slightly at west end and has a steep polygonal . spire, opened below in paired ogee-arched bell openings, each pair with its own gablet. Below this are 2 pointed lancets with a little EE tracery, and below again planked double doors with ornamental iron hinges in chamfered pointed arch with hoodmould. Nave has large west window, pointed, with hoodmould, 5 lights with vaguely "Kentish" tracery above, and a lower order of pointed tracery below. North aisle has 1 pointed arch window with hoodmould, 2 lights and Decorated tracery. Below this planked double doors with elaborate iron hinges, in pointed arch with 2 orders of chamfers and hoodmould. Gateway to right hand with steep coped gable crowned by fleur-de-lys finial: steep cusped pointed arch: very good contemporary iron gates.

Listing NGR: SY6924190410

External Links

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