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United Reformed Church

A Grade II Listed Building in Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn (Y Drenewydd a Llanllwchaearn), Powys

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Latitude: 52.5137 / 52°30'49"N

Longitude: -3.3155 / 3°18'55"W

OS Eastings: 310824

OS Northings: 291460

OS Grid: SO108914

Mapcode National: GBR 9S.GNCT

Mapcode Global: VH689.H23T

Plus Code: 9C4RGM7M+FR

Entry Name: United Reformed Church

Listing Date: 9 May 1988

Last Amended: 9 May 1988

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 8157

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: United Reformed Church

ID on this website: 300008157

Location: Prominently sited on the corner of Park Street with New Church Street.

County: Powys

Community: Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn (Y Drenewydd a Llanllwchaearn)

Community: Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn

Built-Up Area: Newtown

Traditional County: Montgomeryshire

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History

1876, built as a Congregational Chapel.

Exterior

Decorated Gothic style. Bull nosed snecked masonry with freestone dressings. 3 window gabled front. Steep slate roofs, decorative bands to S side. Raking gable parapets on kneelers, crocket finial to apex over cusped vent. Polygonal spirelets on stepped buttresses flank tall central 5 light window. Pointed arch, good geometric cusped tracery. Sill band. Similar smaller 2 light window to left giving aisled effect. That to right truncated by single gabled porch. Pointed arch to doorway. Decorated iron straps to double doors. 6 bayside elevations. Stepped buttresses flanking 2 light traceried windows to S side. Sill band. Corbelled eaves. Entrance porch with stair turret to right on N side. Porch similar to front with cusped plate tracery window to side. Polygonal stair turret, angular hipped decorative slate roof with finial. Freestone band at eaves with paired quatrefoils. Slit-like lancet windows. Cusped lancet to left, other 4 bays as S side.

Vent to apex at rear with cusped vent above polygonal organ chamber with angular hipped roof. Vestries at right angles; gabled roofs. 2 light traceried windows to gable ends advanced beyond main side elevations. Gabled dormer over doorway to centre flanked by 2 light cusped plate tracery windows. Buttresses.

Good decorative ironwork railings on stepped stone base to Park St and New Church St elevations.

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