Description

THROPTON THROPTON VILLAGE
NU 00 SW
(South side)
16/317 Thropton United
Reformed Church
(formerly listed
21.10.53
as Presbyterian
Church) with front
wall and gatepiers
to Manse
GV II

Presbyterian Church. 1863 by F.R. Wilson of Alnwick. Rock-faced stone with
ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular 4-bay plan with 3-sided
eastern apse, north-west porch carrying bell turret and south-east vestry.
Free C13 style. Stepped buttresses, moulded sill string. West end has
4-light window and coped gable on moulded kneelers; other windows are all
trefoil-headed lancets. Porch has boarded double doors with foliate hinges;
upper part steps back to octagonal turret carrying square belfry with trefoil-
headed openings, under steep gablets with sunk ornament,and spirelet with carved
finial.

Interior: Plastered. All windows with shouldered rear arches. Arch-braced
collar-beam roof with moulded pendants and king struts; similar half-trusses
over apse. Truss fronting apse has wallposts and cusped braces. Panelled
pulpit set centrally against east wall; numbered benches.

Low front wall with chamfered coping (rails removed) runs east from porch to
stop-chamferedgatepiers with pyramidal caps, holding C20 wrought-iron gate.

Listing NGR: NU0286302247

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570715

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)