United Reformed Church. Gateway to South of United Reformed Church
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH. GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SOUTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219856
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church. Gateway to South of United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH. GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SOUTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1219856
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church. Gateway to South of United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH. GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SOUTH 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 REFORMED CHURCH. GATEWAY TO SOUTH OF UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SOUTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dorchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 69241 90410
Details
SOUTH STREET 1. 5l91 (East Side) United Reformed Church. Gateway to south of United Reformed Church. SY 6990 7/291 II 2. 1856-7. Architects : Poulton and Woodman of Reading. Former Congregational Church. Portland rubble with ashlars dressings. Nave and 2 aisles with west end onto street and separated by buttresses with setbacks crowned by tall pointed finials. South aisle projects very slightly at west end and has a steep polygonal . spire, opened below in paired ogee-arched bell openings, each pair with its own gablet. Below this are 2 pointed lancets with a little EE tracery, and below again planked double doors with ornamental iron hinges in chamfered pointed arch with hoodmould. Nave has large west window, pointed, with hoodmould, 5 lights with vaguely "Kentish" tracery above, and a lower order of pointed tracery below. North aisle has 1 pointed arch window with hoodmould, 2 lights and Decorated tracery. Below this planked double doors with elaborate iron hinges, in pointed arch with 2 orders of chamfers and hoodmould. Gateway to right hand with steep coped gable crowned by fleur-de-lys finial: steep cusped pointed arch: very good contemporary iron gates.
Listing NGR: SY6924190410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393727
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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