Bamford United Reformed Church
BAMFORD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, NORDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084292
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bamford United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- BAMFORD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, NORDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084292
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bamford United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAMFORD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, NORDEN 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:
- BAMFORD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, NORDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 85948 12544
Details
SD 81 SE HEYWOOD NORDEN ROAD (north west side) 6/20 Bamford United Reformed Church G.V. II
Congregational chapel and Sunday School. Chapel 1801 although it would appear that the facade is of a later date. Sunday School 1861. Chapel, ashlar with brick chancel: school, coursed rubble, both with slate roofs. Meeting hall with 3-sided gallery, small chancel and C20 toilet block at rear. The Sunday school is attached to the left; it has 2 storeys, a large hall on the first floor and a C20 wing at the rear. Chapel is 5-bay with triple-gable and advanced triple porch with gables, the central one giving access to the gallery staircase. All the gables are separated by buttresses with pinnacles and gableted weatherings. Each bay has a lancet window with hoodmould and marginal glazing bars, that to the stair porch being a double-lancet with plate-tracery. The door openings have 4-centred arched and the gables are coped. School is 2-bay by 4-bay with quoins, mullion and transom windows with flush stone relieving arches, central weathered buttress to front and coped gables. The side at first floor has a slightly advanced bay on corbels, incorporating a 2-light pointed window with gabled dormer and 4-flue chimney stack. Interior: timber parapeted gallery rests on quatrefoil cast iron columns; chancel arch, panelled ceiling and elaborate cornice. The manse house despite being important to the group is largely altered and not of special interest.
Listing NGR: SD8594812544
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358847
- 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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