Union Street United Reformed and Methodist Church
UNION STREET UNITED REFORMED AND METHODIST CHURCH, UNION STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282575
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Union Street United Reformed and Methodist Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNION STREET UNITED REFORMED AND METHODIST CHURCH, UNION STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282575
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Union Street United Reformed and Methodist Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNION STREET UNITED REFORMED AND METHODIST CHURCH, UNION STREET
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:
- UNION STREET UNITED REFORMED AND METHODIST CHURCH, UNION STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 92832 04935
Details
OLDHAM
SD9204NE UNION STREET 780-1/6/87 (North side) Union Street United Reformed and Methodist Church
GV II
United Reformed Church, formerly Congregational chapel. 1877. Rusticated rubble, coursed and squared in small blocks, with slate roof. Tower, nave with 2 aisles. Squat central tower in south wall with 6-light Decorated window with hoodmould, and doors recessed to east and west within wide plain stepped Early English arch to porch. Enriched trefoiled window in south wall inside porch. Buttresses to tower, which has embattled parapet. Shallow copings to aisles each side of tower, with foiled lancet windows in south walls, the east and west walls divided by buttresses into 4 bays, each with foiled lancet window. Wood clerestory over, with continuous trefoiled lights. Northern gable has small 3-light Decorated window, and hipped roofed single-storeyed rooms projecting beyond, with paired 2-light windows. Cast-iron railings and gates carried on low plinth wall between stone piers to south and east. (Worrall: Oldham and District Directory: Oldham: 1880-).
Listing NGR: SD9283204935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388952
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Worrall, , Oldham and District Directory, (1880)
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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