Description

HERTFORD

TL3212NW COWBRIDGE
817-1/16/56 (South side)
Cowbridge Halls to Hertford United
Reform Church

GV II

Church halls and former caretaker's house. 1891-2. Architect
James Farley. Knapped flint, with grey brick and sandstone
dressings, yellow stock brick at sides, Welsh slated roof,
gabled to street, with hipped ends at sides, and triangular
gabled ventilators high up. Free late 13th century Gothic
revival style to complement Congregational (now United Reform)
Church (qv) to east.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey front (to single storey interior). Ground
floor has central doorway in twin brick pointed arches, with
outer stone dripmould. Twin leaf battened doors. Stone
kneelers support stone fanlight with heavy plate tracery with
three cusped trefoiled circular openings. Single lancets left
and right, stone with cusped trefoil heads below pointed
arched stone dripmould, linked by band to dripmould over
central door. Above stone band is large central window, twin
paired stone lancets with cusped trefoil heads, and cusped
trefoils above, with large central circular opening, with
inner recessed quatrefoil. Flint infilling below outer stone
dripmould and brick double header pointed arches. Moulded band
and brick gable parapet (simplified in reconstruction from
original brick dentil courses), stone kneelers and stone
coping. Octagonal turrets, flint with brick dressings, at
angles (former pinnacles now missing).
Single storey left and right of centre, coupled stone lancets,
with chamfered trefoil heads, flint panel above, and brick
header pointed inner arch below outer stone dripmould. Brick
dentil and splay courses below eaves of Welsh slated roof.
Side elevation, two bays flint, with buttresses of brick and
flint with stone offsets, remainder of flank in yellow-brown
stock bricks, two storey at rear for former caretaker's house.
INTERIOR: of large hall has 5-bay open timber roof with braced
tie beam trusses and boarded ceiling.

Listing NGR: TL3238712757

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559198

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