UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, MEETING GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236189
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Statutory Address:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, MEETING GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236189
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, MEETING GREEN

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:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, MEETING GREEN

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

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Wickhambrook
National Grid Reference:: TL 74630 55697

Details

1. WICKHAMBROOK MEETING GREEN United Reformed Church TL 75 NW SP/634

II 3/634

2. Chapel, built in 1743 by the local congregation of Independents; later Congregationalist; became the United Reformed Church in 1972. In red brick, with an admixture of blue bricks, laid in Flemish bond; slate roof, fully hipped; plain flat pilasters at the corners. The building has a characteristic facade in 2 storeys, with an upper row of 3 cross windows, and a similar slightly longer window in the centre of the ground floor: all these are late C19 replacements in the original openings, which have segmental arched heads in gauged brickwork. Flanking the ground floor window are 2 original doorways with plain surrounds, segmental arches, and fine doors, each with 8 raised and fielded panels. Set into the wall are 2 semi-circular wrought iron foot-scrapers, and on the left side is an ornate bracketed lamp holder with a decorative finial on top. On the rear wall are 2 long original windows with semi-circular heads and diamond-leaded panes; the light is divided into 3 by heavy glazing-bars, and there is a small opening casement with pintle hinges in the central division. The gauged brick surrounds have keystones and capitals. The interior is typical, with a gallery on 3 sides: the fronts have applied octagonal panels, and the supporting wooden columns have moulded caps and bases. According to the chapel records, the 2 side galleries were added c.1813. The rear gallery is now an organ loft. On the rear wall above the gallery is a very long row of wooden hat pegs. Late C19 benches and roof, the latter an ingenious structure of cast iron and timber, with cast iron ties, and timber queen struts and side purlins. This may have been designed to replace an earlier roof supported on a pillar or pillars. The pulpit, placed centrally between the 2 long windows on the rear wall, is panelled and approached by a flight of steps. Adjoining the chapel on the left is a single-storey Sunday School building in matching materials: said to date from c.1813, with late C19 alterations. Hipped roof; 2 cross windows; central doorway; door with 2 leaves, each 4-panelled with applied mouldings, and a rectangular fanlight with vertical glazing bars; the open roof is similar to that of the chapel. A C19 vestry added to part of the back of the chapel and a C20 extension to the Sunday School building.

Listing NGR: TL7463055697

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Legacy System number:: 427134
Legacy System:: LBS

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