United Reformed Church

UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SOUTH END

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1163395
Date first listed:
19-Jan-1983
List Entry Name:
United Reformed Church
Statutory Address:
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SOUTH END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1163395
Date first listed:
19-Jan-1983
List Entry Name:
United Reformed Church
Statutory Address 1:
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SOUTH END

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SOUTH END

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth
National Grid Reference:
TL 33333 43732

Details

TL 3243 BASSINGBOURN-CUM-KNEESWORTH SOUTH END (East Side) 20/74 19.1.83 United Reformed Church

II

Chapel. 1790 with C19 additions and alterations. Timber-framed with roughcast render and plain tiled roofs, gault brick and slated roof additions. One galleried storey. Original building with double, hipped roof of three 'bays' extended with an apse to the east accommodating the vestry with organ gallery above. Late C19 brick extension of one 'bay' to north with symmetrical gabled entrance facade. Double doors and two side doors recessed with band of pointed lights to three fanlights. Portico with four octagonal piers. Three two-light gallery windows with leaded light and stuccoed drip moulds; quatrefoil in apex and apex finial. Interior: Gallery on three sides supported on wooden columns with 'W.W fecit 1802' on painted roundel on east side. Marble tablet to Rev. Sam Bull, the first pastor of the church, ordained 1791, died 1826, on south wall. Samuel Dodkin (d.1808) left money for the upkeep of the chapel.

RCHM Report 1950 VCH Vol VIII p.28

Listing NGR: TL3333343732

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52479
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Sources

Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 28

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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