MELBOURN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

MELBOURN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ORCHARD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1127543
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: MELBOURN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Statutory Address:: MELBOURN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ORCHARD ROAD

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Date:: 2002-04-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1127543
Date first listed:: 22-Nov-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: MELBOURN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: MELBOURN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ORCHARD ROAD

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:: MELBOURN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ORCHARD ROAD

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Melbourn
National Grid Reference:: TL 38264 44472

Details

MELBOURN ORCHARD ROAD TL 3844 (North west side) 24/198 Melbourn United 22.11.67 Reformed Church, (formerly listed as Old Meeting House) (Congregational Chapel) II

Congregational meeting house. c.1716 enlarged at the south end in 1815 and to the rear c.1830. Brick, rendered, with the 1815 front wall of amber brickwork and some stone detail. Hipped slate roof rising to a lantern, replaced by a polygonal cupola with a shallow domed roof covered with copper. Two stage front elevation framed by pilasters with plain capitals and bases. Range of three recessed, sixteen pane hung sashes at first stage. The ground stage has a hung sash also of sixteen panes, flanked by two pairs of six panelled double doors, each with moulded wood surround and pediment. Inside: The later pulpit is flanked by giant engaged Doric columns. There is a gallery to three sides carried on Doric columns of wood, the abacus enriched with carving. The balustrade has raised and fielded panelling and in the south end an C18 Chinese lacquered clock by Thomas Kefford of Royston. Squire stall between the two internal porches. Wall monuments: Mrs. Sarah Nash; members of Woodham family and Rev. William Carver all early C19.

R.C.H.M.: Record Card 1949 V.C.H. Cambs. Vol. VIII p.81 C.F: R.C.H.M.: Record Card G. Porter Chapple: Congregationalism in Melbourn 1694-1894

Listing NGR: TL3826444472

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Legacy System number:: 52250
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Chapple, G P, Congregationalism in Melbourn 1694-1894
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 81

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