United Reformed Church
United Reformed Church, High Street, Wellingborough, NN8 4HW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191513
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1970
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- United Reformed Church, High Street, Wellingborough, NN8 4HW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191513
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- United Reformed Church, High Street, Wellingborough, NN8 4HW
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, High Street, Wellingborough, NN8 4HW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wellingborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 88978 68001
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/09/2012
SP8868SE, SP8867NE
8/110, 10/110
WELLINGBOROUGH
HIGH STREET (east side)
United Reformed Church
(Formerly listed as Congregational Church)
09/06/70
GV
II*
Congregational Church, now United Reformed Church. c.1875. Architect E. Sharman to a plan by Caleb Archer. Builder: J. Boddington. Rusticated lias with ashlar dressings. Porches at north, south and west axis and vestry hall attached to east. Single storey with gallery.
Entrance front has two-storey gabled porch with pointed arched opening and pairs of detached columns with foliated capitals. Three-light window above with roundel and cusped tracery. Single-storey quadrants to either side of porch have continuous arcading, with detached columns, with foliated capitals and blank arid glazed openings. Main body of church to either side of porch has a two-storey appearance with piers of pointed head windows at each level separate by detached columns with foliated capitals. Three-stage buttresses between each window pair. Elevations to left and right of entrance front have gabled porches of one and a half storeys with arched entrances facing the entrance front. Gable ends have three single lancets with roundel in arched recess above.
Rear of main body of the church is similar to the entrance front with attached vestry hall in similar style. Corbelled ashlar cornice. Roof has the shape of a truncated cone with central cast-iron railings around large iron ventilator chimneys.
Interior has gallery supported on cast-iron columns. Original seating and organ by Hill. All windows have stained glass. Cast iron sliding gates at main entrance porch.
Listing NGR: SP8897868001
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 233765
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 453
Palmer, J, Palmer, M, History of Wellingborough, ()
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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