LONGHAM UNITED REFORM CHURCH

LONGHAM UNITED REFORM CHURCH, HAMPRESTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154311
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1974
List Entry Name:: LONGHAM UNITED REFORM CHURCH
Statutory Address:: LONGHAM UNITED REFORM CHURCH, HAMPRESTON ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154311
Date first listed:: 03-Dec-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: LONGHAM UNITED REFORM CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: LONGHAM UNITED REFORM CHURCH, HAMPRESTON ROAD
Statutory Address 2:: LONGHAM UNITED REFORM CHURCH, RINGWOOD 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:: LONGHAM UNITED REFORM CHURCH, HAMPRESTON ROAD
Statutory Address:: LONGHAM UNITED REFORM CHURCH, RINGWOOD ROAD

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ferndown Town
National Grid Reference:: SZ 06638 98561

Details

HAMPRESTON HAMPRESTON ROAD (North) SZ 09 NE RINGWOOD ROAD (West) 12/26 Longham United Reform Church.(formerly 3.12.74 listed as Congregational Chapel) - II

Church. 1841. Walls of 'white' brickwork in Flemish bond, with yellow brick rubbed arches, dressings of Portland stone and some stucco. Slate roof. Five bay rectangular block, each with a thin pilaster and round-headed window in an arched recess, with moulded caps to pilasters and impost blocks, stone cills with panel below, above and continuous stone band; the pilasters have a plain plinth and support a plain deep eaves band. The south front has a pediment gable, and the pilasters at each side have an Ionic Order, with stone moulded cornice and architrave band, and a moulded base. The upper windows are round-headed (the centre wider) and fit within recessed panels, which also accommodate smaller rectangular lights at the ground floor (at each side). The central entrance is a Tuscan porch, with brick pilasters and plain stone columns, resting on three steps; the doorway has an architrave and coupled doors, each of four panels. Above the gable rises a slender bell turret, with a square base, octagonal panelled middle stage (with a clock), an octagonal upper stage recessed behind columns (of a Doric Order), the top being crowned with a slim octagonal copper-covered spire. Inside, there is a (south) gallery. RCHM

Listing NGR: SZ0663898561

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Legacy System number:: 107652
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970)

Legal

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