Blyth United Reformed Church
BLYTH UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WATERLOO ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041348
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Blyth United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- BLYTH UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WATERLOO ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041348
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Blyth United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLYTH UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WATERLOO ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BLYTH UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WATERLOO ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Blyth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 31065 81370
Details
BLYTH WATERLOO ROAD
NZ 3181 SW
(South side)
11/47 Blyth United
Reformed Church
28.7.50 (formerly listed as
Presbyterian Church)
GV II
United Reformed Church, formerly Presbyterian. 1874-6 by Thomas Oliver junior.
Brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 and 3, with ashlar dressings; Lakeland
slate roof with terracotta ridge cresting. T-plan with hall and sunday schools
at rear; liturgical west end (to north) with north-west tower/spire and south-
west apsidal stair projection. Free C14 style. West end, flanked by, large
stepped buttresses, has boarded doors with ornamental ironwork, and small
lancets to right and left with linked hoodmoulds. Multi-chamfered set-back
above and two tall 2-light windows; rose window in gable. To left, short
linking bay with shouldered doorway within pointed arch, and 3-stage tower.
Chamfered plinth, moulded strings; upper stages have multi-chamfered setback,
between clasping buttresses. Tall paired bell openings with slatted louvres.
Lofty spire patterned in ashlar and brick; pierced band with small lucarnes at
mid-height. To right, stair projection has similar doorway to tower link bay,
and lancets above. 5-bay north and south walls; stepped buttresses, 2 tiers of
paired lancets except for upper 2-light window in gabled dormer at east. Hall
at rear, 5 bays, rather plainer detail.
Interior: 4 bays, plastered above wainscoting. Panelled gallery round 3 sides
supported on cast-iron columns, canted at western corners, and with pointed
arcade on upper level. Roof recently underdrawn; raised half tie-beam trusses
in aisles. Eastern arch, filled by organ, moulded on detached colonnettes
and with head-stopped hoodmould. Oak central pulpit. Original numbered
benches. Early brass light fittings on gallery string. War memorial window
of St. George.
Porch to hall, and small extruded block between hall and church, are later
additions and are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ3106581370
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236012
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/33433
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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