UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, LEE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280138
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1995
List Entry Name:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Statutory Address:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, LEE ROAD

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Date:: 2002-09-25
Reference:: IOE01/09137/10
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1280138
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1995
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Oct-1995
List Entry Name:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, LEE ROAD

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, LEE ROAD

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Lynton and Lynmouth
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS 71773 49399

Details

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

SS7149 LEE ROAD, Lynton 858-1/4/25 (South side) United Reformed Church

II

United Reformed Church, formerly Congregational. 1904. For Sir George Newnes, patron, at cost of £1,500. Snecked rubble, limestone ashlar dressings, tile roof. A single 4-bay nave, with vestry to SW, and squat tower above porch to the NE; the church is set gable to Lee Road. An Arts and Crafts building with Art Nouveau overtones. The main gable has decorative timber-framing with cusping, and a brattished bottom 'tie', with plastered panels, above a 5-light window with transom and flat segmental head with decorative spandrels; the lights are cusped. The gable eaves has a cusped barge-board and a small finial. To the left, brought forward, is a gabled porch with similar barge-board, over a pair of plank doors in a segmental moulded arch. Set back behind this is the tower, square, with corner turrets and sunk lancet panels, with an undulating crenellated parapet above blind 'Perpendicular' panelling, and a 2-light casement with transom. The pyramidal roof has a lead finial. The E side of the tower has a 3-light casement. The right (W) return is in 4 bays, with 3-light casements with transom, cusped lights under a flat segmental arch, and small-pane leading, divided by square buttresses with 2 offsets, but diagonal at the gable end. To the right is the gabled vestry, set forward towards the street, with decorative barge-board and timber-framing containing a 5-light timber casement. The S gable is plain, with a small ridge stack, and with an attached low apse with conical roof, and a diagonal buttress to the right corner. The E side has four 3-lights and buttresses, as the W. The deep eaves carries the original cast-iron ogee gutter. INTERIOR: 4 arched-braced collar trusses with decorative square baluster kingposts. Plastered walls, panelled dado, plain glass. A central octagonal pulpit with Art Nouveau carved decoration, flanked by rails and a platform on 2 steps. There was formerly an organ in the apsidal recess. An austere interior to a simple but dignified exterior. The building is another example of the generosity of Sir George Newnes as patron in the town, and is similar in style to the Town Hall (qv); an inscribed stone reads: 'Erected by Sir George Newnes. Dedicated August 23rd 1904'. (Allen NV: Churches and Chapels of Exmoor: Dulverton: 1974-: 63).

Listing NGR: SS7177349399

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Legacy System number:: 376507
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Allen, NV , The Churches and Chapels of Exmoor, (1974), 63

Legal

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