UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1102418
Date first listed: 11-Jul-1983
Statutory Address: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WATER LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish: Bishop's Stortford
National Grid Reference: TL 48754 21536
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
1.
WATER LANE
(South-West Side)
United Reformed Church
TL 4821 NE: 1/89
II
2.
1860 by Poulton and Woodman. Formerly a Congregation Church. Yellow stock brick with
Bath stone dressings. Slate roof. Two storeys. Romanesque style with Italianate
details. Double apse plan, south front with 2 projecting towers, pierced parapets on
top, flanking single storey 3-arched loggia with similar parapet. Rusticated arches
on loggia and tower ground floors, the latter with stone plate tracery. Continuous
triplets of round-headed lancets on ground and first floors of main block. Interior
has segmental roof with plain cast iron beams. Double galleries around 3 sides, lower
one on spiralled cast iron columns, upper one on wrought iron brackets and with
elaborate cast iron balcony. Large organ and pulpit in centre north side. Imposing
building in open area east of North Street. (Pevsner 2nd Ed Rev (1977) 102).
Listing NGR: TL4875421536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 160981
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 102
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing