United Reformed Church
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SPENCER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381538
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SPENCER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381538
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- United Reformed Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SPENCER 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:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SPENCER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Leamington Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31857 65405
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165SE SPENCER STREET
1208-1/8/378 (North side)
19/11/53 United Reformed Church
(Formerly Listed as:
SPENCER STREET
(North side)
Congregational Chapel)
GV II
Congregational Chapel, now United Reformed Church. 1836-1838.
Pinkish-brown brick with Welsh slate roof and painted stucco
front facade. Neo-Classical style.
EXTERIOR: single tall storey, 3 bays. Double-chamfered plinth.
Giant Doric pilasters clasp angles. Flight of 4 steps to
tetrastyle pedimented Ionic portico with single column and
engaged pilaster to sides, continuous frieze and cornice with
parapet to outer bays and behind pediment.
Central entrance: triple fielded-panel doors with overlight
with glazing bars in tooled architrave and with cornice and
low pediment. To either side a tall round-arched window with
stained glass in moulded architraves and with sills with feet.
Hipped roof.
To each return the first bay is stuccoed and projects with
Doric pilaster to angles and with entrance a plank door in
tooled architrave with cornice on corbels. Tall plinth, 6
similar windows with pilaster strips between; frieze, wide
eaves.
INTERIOR: has gallery on 3 sides supported on cast-iron
columns with second floor gallery on rear wall.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Spencer Street laid out 1832-1839.
(Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988):
Glimpses of our Local Past.. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1895-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its
History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 32).
Listing NGR: SP3185765405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481900
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Manning, J C, Glimpses of our Local Past... Royal Leamington Spa, (1895)
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 32
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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