United Reformed Church

United Reformed Church, West Street, Maidenhead

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117592
Date first listed:: 12-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: United Reformed Church
Statutory Address:: United Reformed Church, West Street, Maidenhead

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1117592
Date first listed:: 12-Aug-1983
List Entry Name:: United Reformed Church
Statutory Address 1:: United Reformed Church, West Street, Maidenhead

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: United Reformed Church, West Street, Maidenhead

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 88843 81314

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 April 2024 to correct a typo in the name and address

SU 8881 SE 4/56

WEST STREET (north side) United Reformed Church

II

1785 on date panel. Entrance front considerably altered in the mid/late C19. Red brick, slate roof. South front, gabled with parapet, full height recessed arched opening, Bath stone coping and dentils to parapet. Three tall windows, centre with rounded head all with glazing bars forming circular patterns. Full height coupled Corinthian pilasters with stone capitals supporting arch. Barrel vault under arch with soffite rendered and lined. Flanked by pavilions with hipped slate roofs, brick dentil cornice, stone flat band at first floor and ground floor carried up at ground floor in semi-circular arched openings with keystones over door openings. Door to RH with six moulded panels, semi-circular glazed fanlight over, similar on LH but with panels glazed. Circular windows with glazing bars forming four circles, above doors. North end well restored in modern times.

Interior: double height with balustraded gallery on slender cast iron fluted Doric columns on three sides. Plaster cornice. North wall has central panelled pulpit with stairs on either side and ornate wood balusters in front of tall semi-circular arched niche, flanked by six-panelled doors in moulded architraves.

Listing NGR: SU8884381314

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Legacy System number:: 40769
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 97
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.