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Latitude: 50.7125 / 50°42'45"N
Longitude: -2.437 / 2°26'13"W
OS Eastings: 369241
OS Northings: 90410
OS Grid: SY692904
Mapcode National: GBR PY.RMZ2
Mapcode Global: FRA 57S6.8DG
Plus Code: 9C2VPH77+25
Entry Name: United Reformed Church. Gateway to South of United Reformed Church
Listing Date: 8 May 1975
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1219856
English Heritage Legacy ID: 393727
ID on this website: 101219856
Location: Dorchester, Dorset, DT1
County: Dorset
Civil Parish: Dorchester
Built-Up Area: Dorchester
Traditional County: Dorset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Dorchester and West Stafford
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Church building
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
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