UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ABBEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281265
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Statutory Address:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ABBEY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281265
Date first listed:: 01-Nov-1972
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, ABBEY LANE

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, ABBEY LANE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Uttlesford (District Authority)
Parish:: Saffron Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 53598 38349

Details

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 ABBEY LANE 669-1/1/8 (North side) 01/11/72 United Reformed Church (Formerly Listed as: ABBEY LANE Congregational Church)

GV II

Congregational chapel. 1811, altered 1888. Red brick, random burnt headers, stucco front lined for ashlar, slate roofs. 3x3 bays, single storey, hipped roofed vestry to E. W front: has open modillion pediment with anthemion at apex, centre bay recessed under moulded round arch, side bays with windows set in segmental arched recesses. Tetrastyle Ionic porch with modillion cornice. 9-panelled double doors flanked by similar single doors, with pilasters, panelled reveals. Fine cast-iron Adam-style fanlights; semi-elliptical to centre, round-headed to sides. Round-arched window over porch with moulded architrave, pilaster jambs with moulded string course at level of capitals; margin glazing. Side bays have 2-light mullion and transom windows with moulded architraves, round-headed margin glazed lights. Side elevations: have modillioned eaves, ground floor and gallery windows in round-arched recesses with 2-light mullion and transom windows detailed as before, under segmental rubbed brick arches. E end wall: has rebuilt parapet, two 2-light windows, arched recesses detailed as before. Abutting vestry has dentilled eaves, margin glazed sash window in arched recesses to E, similar window and inserted door to N; porch with slate roof and spiral columns to S. INTERIOR: gallery with cast-iron quatrefoil columns, dentilled cornice, solid panelled frontal. Arched recess to E wall with rosette moulding, fluted pilasters with stylised anthemion capitals. Vestry doors with pedimented doorcases. C18 mahogany pulpit, remodelled and enlarged in late C19 with additional barley-twist columns; stair with C18 handrail, later balusters and newel. Dais rail, mid C19, fluted newels with acorn finials. Dado panelling with dentilled cornice. Fine complete set of late C19 pews with decorative carved ends, scrolled armrests, brass numbers and umbrella racks. Vestry has dado panelling and cast-iron Art Nouveau fireplace. The church occupies the site of the original Meeting House of the Independent Congregation founded 1665.

Listing NGR: TL5359838349

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Legacy System number:: 370365
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.