United Reformed Church and Attached Parish Rooms

UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ATTACHED PARISH ROOMS, BARRACK CORNER

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1237380
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
United Reformed Church and Attached Parish Rooms
Statutory Address:
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ATTACHED PARISH ROOMS, BARRACK CORNER
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1237380
Date first listed:
06-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
United Reformed Church and Attached Parish Rooms
Statutory Address 1:
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH AND ATTACHED PARISH ROOMS, BARRACK CORNER

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

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 AND ATTACHED PARISH ROOMS, BARRACK CORNER

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TM 15735 44837

Details

BARRACK CORNER
TM 1544 5/261A United Reformed Church and
attached Parish rooms

GV II

United Reformed Church, formerly Presbyterian and attached Parish Rooms. 1870
additions c.1890. Designed by Frederick Barnes. Built by Henry Luff. In the
Gothic Revival style. Kentish rags tone rubble with ashlar and blue brick dressings. Slate roofs with moulded coped gables and kneelers, plus ornate iron ridge decoration. Trefoil pierced parapets, and chamfered plinth. Nave and north-western tower with spire, plus transepts and polygonal apse. Eastern entrance front has nave gabled wall flanked by single projecting gabled porches topped by cross finials and with pointed arched doorways. Between, 3 single pointed lancets, and above a large 5 light pointed arched window with Geometrical tracery and a hood mould and banded blue brick and ashlar voussoirs. To the south a polygonal stair turret and to the north a square tower, with double lancet bell-openings to each face and above a broached ashlar spire with a single set of gabled lucarnes. Nave north wall has 3 tall 2 light pointed arched windows, and to the west a projecting gabled transept. The apse has 3 small triple lancet windows. To the south-west the gabled parish rooms in a similar style. Interior has a fine wooden roof and contemporary wooden fittings, though with white washed walls.


Listing NGR: TM1573544837

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Legacy System number:
428590
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.

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