United Reformed Church
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, LEE ROAD
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Overview
- 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
- Rights:
- © Mr John Robins. Source: Historic England Archive
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- 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
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, 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376507
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
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.
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