United Reformed Church
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, CHURCH GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1123410
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, CHURCH GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1123410
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, CHURCH GREEN
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, CHURCH GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Terling
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 77249 14867
Details
TL 7714 TERLING CHURCH GREEN (north-west side)
11/114 United Reformed Church
GV II*
Congregational church. 1752-3, altered in C19. Red brick in Flemish bond with dressings of blue brick, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Rectangular plan facing SE, with early C19 vestry to rear. One storey, but formerly with a gallery, so externally of 2 storeys. 3-window range of cross windows, those on the ground floor with segmental arches of red brick, those in the upper range with flat heads of alternate red and blue bricks. Double 6-panel doors standing forward in shallow gabled porch with flat brick arch and ball finial, added 1895. Recessed stone tablet over door inscribed 'Bvilded circa 1700, restored 1895' (the former date is erroneous). String course at first floor level. Plaster coving below eaves. Hipped roof. Inscription low in right return, 'T. Brown 1752' is probably by the master mason. In the rear elevation there are 2 altered windows at half-height, of 7 lights with semi-circular heads. The interior was originally arranged with the pulpit on the long NW wall and galleries on the other 3 sides; in 1895 the pulpit was moved to the short SW wall and the galleries removed. The windows in the SW wall were blocked. Marble tablet to the Reverend William Kemp, 1844, on SW wall.
Listing NGR: TL7724914867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115462
- 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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