UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318207
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Statutory Address:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

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Date:: 2005-01-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318207
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Wyre (District Authority)
Parish:: Forton
National Grid Reference:: SD 48826 51222

Details

FORTON SD 45 SE 1/95 United Reformed Church - GV II

United Reformed (formerly Congregational) church, 1760 on site of church of 1706-7, altered 1870 and 1920s. Sandstone rubble with slate M-roof. Single storey. Facade has chamfered quoins, and one bay on each side of gabled porch. Windows are tall with plain stone surrounds and round heads with keystones and impost blocks. Each rises under a small gable. The porch has a doorway with moulded pointed surround. The left-hand (east) wall has twin gables and 2 windows similar to those at the front. Interior has C18 pulpit, said to have come from St.Michael's on Wyre, of raised and fielded panels and with a stair of slim turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SD4882651222

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 185486
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.