United Reformed Church and Memorial Stone Beside North Wall

UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND MEMORIAL STONE BESIDE NORTH WALL, CHAPEL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1128092
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
United Reformed Church and Memorial Stone Beside North Wall
Statutory Address:
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND MEMORIAL STONE BESIDE NORTH WALL, CHAPEL LANE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1128092
Date first listed:
17-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
United Reformed Church and Memorial Stone Beside North Wall
Statutory Address 1:
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND MEMORIAL STONE BESIDE NORTH WALL, CHAPEL LANE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND MEMORIAL STONE BESIDE NORTH WALL, CHAPEL LANE

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Fowlmere
National Grid Reference:
TL 42149 45572

Details

TL 4245 FOWLMERE CHAPEL LANE (South Side) 18/102 United Reformed Church and Memorial stone beside north wall. GV II Chapel. c.1780, apse at east end 1870, bell tower and clock 1881, restoration 1878. Timber-framed with rough cast render, C19 gault brick; C20 ridge-tiled hipped and gabled roofs. Two storey chapel with single storey school room to west and bell tower rising above two storeys to south-west corner. Chapel with square plan, polygonal apse and symmetrical west front with gabled projection flanked by lean-to open porches; gault brick quoins. Two storey central window, two gallery windows (and side elevation windows) with round headed arches and original leaded lights. Diagonal boarded doors to left and right hand with patterned iron hinges shaped to round arches. School room with pierced gable bargeboards and drop finial, round apex window and two casement windows in cambered brick arches. Bell tower with panelled brick walls, clock in north face and louvred belfry lights. Interior: Gallery on three sides with panelled front supported on cast iron columns. Organ C19 by Hen Jones, London SW. Memorial stone, limestone slab inscribed to the memory of Rev. Wm Merchand d.1810 and Mary his wife. Kellys' Directories for Cambridgeshire R.C.H.M. Report 1949 V.C.H. Vol. VI

Listing NGR: TL4214945572

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
52915
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978)
Kelly's Directory in Cambridgeshire, (1904)

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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.

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