United Reformed Church
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, MARKET HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256402
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, MARKET HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256402
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, MARKET HILL
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, MARKET HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Maldon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85135 07119
Details
MALDON
TL8507SW MARKET HILL 574-1/7/185 (East side) 02/10/51 United Reformed Church (Formerly Listed as: MARKET HILL Congregational Church)
GV II
Independent chapel, now United Reformed Church. 1801, enlarged with galleries 1811 and 1835, refronted c1860; renewal of pews and gallery and addition of vestry to east end c1876. Timber-framed, pargeted, with stucco and stone facade and concrete-tile roof. STYLE: Classical. EXTERIOR: galleried interior expressed as 2 storeys; 5 bays; with 6-bay flanks. 3-bay pedimented centre with channelled quoins. Ground floor has ashlar tetrastyle-in-antis Ionic portico; triple entrances within have panelled doors under rectangular fanlights in moulded architraves, double-leaf door to centre. Wide floor band. First floor has 3 shallow round-arched recesses with keyblocks linked by impost band and containing round-arched windows with margin glazing. Modillion cornice and circular ventilation grille to pediment. Steps to side bays, containing stairs to gallery, each has a panelled door with a rectangular fanlight in a moulded architrave with cornice and shallow pediment in stucco above. Wide first-floor band. Windows with margin glazing in architraves above. Angle pilasters and modillion cornice. Single-bay returns of facade pedimented, with similar detailing. Range to rear: two tiers of windows with margin glazing, those to upper tier round arched. Panels of pargeting enclosing windows. North and south doors to vestry in east bay. East end has two 3-light cross windows with glazing bars. Pair of round-arched sashes above and circular ventilation grille to pediment. INTERIOR: gallery on all four sides with curved angles on cast-iron Tuscan columns; patera to centre of each panel. Set of numbered pews with semicircular bench ends. Raised platform for table with side benches. Raised pulpit approached by steps with iron balustrade. Pair of staircases flanking narrow vestibule at west end has ramped handrail and pierced quatrefoil motifs. Set of plain benches to gallery. Ventilation grilles to coved plaster ceiling. HISTORY: the founder of the Independent congregation in Maldon was Joseph Billio who raised the first chapel on the same site
at his own expense in 1696. It was from his vigorous preaching style that the expression 'like Billio' derived. The new chapel was built under Revd Stephen Forster at a cost of over »2,000. (Earnsman MGL: The Church on Market Hill).
Listing NGR: TL8513507119
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464933
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Earnsman, M G L, The Church on Market Hill, ()
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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