United Reform Church
UNITED REFORM CHURCH, GEORGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211075
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- United Reform Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORM CHURCH, GEORGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211075
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- United Reform Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORM CHURCH, GEORGE STREET
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 REFORM CHURCH, GEORGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Harborough (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lutterworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 54414 84630
Details
LUTTERWORTH GEORGE STREET SP5484 1323-0/9/72 (East side) 11/01/55 United Reform Church (Formerly Listed as: GEORGE STREET Congregational Church) GV II
United Reform Church. Dated 1777, but probably rebuilt in early C19. Red brick with painted pilaster quoins, window arches and moulded cornice, and rendered bands and door-surround. Moulded platband over ground floor and cillband to upper floor. Low hipped Swithland slate roof with ridge running front to back. Two storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front, in segment-headed surrounds with keyblocks. Paired casements with glazing bars, radiating above. Pilastered entrance-surround with frieze and cornice to paired six-panel doors with overlights. Two-storey single-bay extension to right in similar style. Panelled door below with Gothick-glazed fanlight. Left return elevation of three windows on two storeys with band and moulded cornice. Datestone of 1777 above door refers to the building of the chapel after the reunion of the two Lutterworth Congregations following an earlier secession. Interior: altered in late C19 but retaining original galleries around three sides and hexagonal pulpit. There are various C18 monuments. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Williamson E, Brandwood G: Leicestershire and Rutland: London: 1984-: 301; Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Inventories: Stell C: An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses: London: 1986-: 129).
Listing NGR: SP5441484630
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392565
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Central England, (1986), 129
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 301
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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