Tabernacle United Reformed Church
TABERNACLE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, PARSONAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290871
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tabernacle United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- TABERNACLE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, PARSONAGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290871
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tabernacle United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- TABERNACLE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, PARSONAGE 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:
- TABERNACLE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, PARSONAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dursley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75399 98238
Details
DURSLEY PARSONAGE STREET ST 7598 (north side) 5/46 Tabernacle United Reformed Church GV II
Formerly Congregational Tabernacle, now United Reformed Church. Dated 1808; enlarged 1872 with new interior by T. Thomas of Swansea. Coursed rubble limestone; ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular with single-storey lobby at south-east end. Attached at north-west end to church rooms and manse house, both not of special interest Sides: 3-window fenestration on 2 levels with central pediment to break forward on south-west side only. Y- tracery to pointed-arched windows all with C20 obscured glass. Long and short quoins to corners and break forward. Plain mutules to projecting eaves, and slanted mutules to pediment with datestone in tympanum and surmounted by bold finial. Pedimented end gables; 2 pointed-arched upper level windows at south-east end. Lean-to lobby below with offset buttressed parapet end wall, buttresses having pointed finials. Central moulded, hooded and pointed arched doorway in long south-east facing wall of lobby with small gable to parapet above; 2-light trefoil-headed lancets to either side of doorways, and single trefoil-headed lancet in end return walls. Shaped panel in mutule enriched pediment to main body containing sans serif inscription: 'THE/TABERNACLE/AD 1808'. Bold finial to gable. Interior contains gallery on 3 sides with panelled front and supported on cast-iron pillars with stiff-leaf capitals. Fine fretwork panelling to Gothic revival octagonal-fronted timber pulpit. Moulded ceiling and moulded wall panelling. Set of panelled box pews. Many late C18 and C19 memorials. Prominent position on rise at west end of town centre. (A. Best et al, An Historical Survey of Dursley, 1985; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: ST7539998238
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394415
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Best, A, An Historical Survey of Dursley, (1985)
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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