United Reformed Church
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102418
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WATER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102418
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, WATER LANE
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 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
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.
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