United Free Church
UNITED FREE CHURCH, HIGH ELMS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081029
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1979
- List Entry Name:
- United Free Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED FREE CHURCH, HIGH ELMS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1081029
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1979
- List Entry Name:
- United Free Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED FREE CHURCH, HIGH ELMS
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:
- UNITED FREE CHURCH, HIGH ELMS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Waltham Forest (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ4003192185
Details
HIGH ELMS
TQ 4092 & TQ 39SE
Woodford Green
The United Free Church
GV II*
Church. 1904 by Charles Harrison Townsend. Red brick, yellow terracotta
dressings. Tiled roof. Cruciform plan. Aisled 5-bay nave with thermal windows
to clerestory. Short transepts. Apsidal north west chapel. Projecting south
west porch. West end with large round-headed niche enclosing two thermal windows
with pair of segmental headed doorways below. Thermal windows to aisles, tran-
septs, and clerestory, flush mullions. Flying buttresses. Interior: barrel
vaulted with brick and terracotta transverse arches rising from square marble
clad piers. Semicircular arcade arches. Marble cladding to aisle walls. Gallery
to west end.
The asset was previously listed twice also under the London Borough of Redbridge under List entry 1357630. This entry was removed from the List on 17 January 2018.
The asset was previously designated as Grade II. This was up-graded to Grade II* on 24 February 1987.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 204815
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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