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United Reformed Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Kingston upon Thames, London

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Latitude: 51.4091 / 51°24'32"N

Longitude: -0.3048 / 0°18'17"W

OS Eastings: 517997

OS Northings: 169150

OS Grid: TQ179691

Mapcode National: GBR 78.ZTP

Mapcode Global: VHGR8.NVQ4

Plus Code: 9C3XCM5W+J3

Entry Name: United Reformed Church

Listing Date: 6 October 1983

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1300202

English Heritage Legacy ID: 203108

Also known as: United Reformed Church, Kingston upon Thames

ID on this website: 101300202

Location: Kingston upon Thames, London, KT1

County: London

District: Kingston upon Thames

Electoral Ward/Division: Grove

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Kingston upon Thames

Traditional County: Surrey

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: All Saints, Kingston-on-Thames

Church of England Diocese: Southwark

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Description


United Reformed Church 1856. Pedimented tetrastyle front with giant order of Roman Doric pilasters and short wings set back to each side. Pale brick with stucco mouldings and stucco quoins to the wings. The pilasters frame two storeys of round-arched openings. On the ground floor are three doorways with modern doors and blue mosaic in the tympanums of no interest. Above are round-arched windows with stuccoed pilasters and archivolts. Three bay return elevation to either side; arched windows, set in arched recesses with pilasters between. Parapet.


Listing NGR: TQ1799769150

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/02/2016

History


Kingston upon Thames, historically in Surrey, was an important market town, port and river crossing from the early medieval period, while there is evidence of Saxon settlement and of activity dating from the prehistoric period and of Roman occupation. It is close to the important historic royal estates at Hampton Court, Bushy Park, Richmond and Richmond Park. The old core of the town, around All Saints Church (C14 and C15, on an earlier site) and Market Place, with its recognisably medieval street pattern, is ‘the best preserved of its type in outer London’ (Pevsner and Cherry, London: South, 1983 p. 307). Kingston thrived first as an agricultural and market town and on its historic industries of malting, brewing and tanning, salmon fishing and timber exporting, before expanding rapidly as a suburb after the arrival of the railway in the 1860s. In the later C19 it become a centre of local government, and in the early C20 became an important shopping and commercial centre. Its rich diversity of buildings and structures from all periods reflect the multi-facetted development of the town.

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