United Reform Church and Former Ministers House
UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND FORMER MINISTERS HOUSE, EMERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268132
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- United Reform Church and Former Ministers House
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND FORMER MINISTERS HOUSE, EMERY LANE
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- Date:
- 2006-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/15676/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268132
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- United Reform Church and Former Ministers House
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORM CHURCH AND FORMER MINISTERS HOUSE, EMERY LANE
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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 AND FORMER MINISTERS HOUSE, EMERY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chippenham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 92262 73337
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9273SW EMERY LANE 930-1/10/28 United Reform Church and former 22/06/78 Minister's House (Formerly Listed as: EMERY LANE United Reform Church)
II
United Reform Church. Dated 1825 and 1904. Minister's house mid C19. CHAPEL: squared and coursed limestone with plain freestone dressings, hipped slate roof. Rectangular plan with higher 1904 block to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; originally symmetrical 3-window range now with a mid C19 porch and extension to front left. Parapet, cornice, platband and plinth. A central pediment has an inscription in the tympanum "Tabernacle first erected in 1770. Rebuilt in the year 1825". Fixed leaded 2-light windows; that under the pediment has a semicircular arch and pointed-arched lights, that to the ground-floor right has a transom with 3 similar windows to the ground floor of each return and pointed arches to the lights of the 1st-floor windows above them. The mid C19 ashlar porch, (a lean-to from the platband), has a cornice and blocking course, double 3-panel doors, and a 4-pane window to the right. The window to the left is covered by the left-hand front extension. The block to the rear is limestone rubble to the ground floor and English-bond brick to the 1st floor, probably hightened in 1904 to accommodate the organ. INTERIOR: the stone-flagged porch gives onto stairs to each side, in tongued-and-grooved lobbies at the base, and with stick balusters and turned newels at gallery level. The tiered gallery, supported by cast-iron columns, has original pews and a modillion cornice. The interior was altered c1904 in a late C19 style when the rear wall was opened with a semi-elliptical arch to give access to the organ which is on the 1st floor of the rear block; an inverted segmental arch to the base of the opening is fronted by a parapet with large patera in ornate recesses. Below, a dais and steps with turned balusters and newels flank a pulpit with trefoil heads to 3 panels. Tongued-and-grooved panelling up to a dado rail surrounds the ground floor. The gallery front has a dentilled cornice; recessed panels with recessed trefoils and a modillion cornice to the base. MINISTER'S HOUSE: Flemish-bond brick with limestone ashlar facade, slate roof with truncated stack to the left gable end. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 2-window range. 6/6-pane sash windows, platband, and a semi-elliptical arched carriage entrance (now blocked) to the right with the edge roll inscribed "Congregational Church". A small 6/6-pane sash window is to the far right. The left return has a 6/6-pane sash window to both floors. The house is now connected to the chapel by a block which covers most of the left-hand range of the building. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST9226273337
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462226
- 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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