United Reformed Church
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SPENCER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1381538
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- Statutory Address:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SPENCER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1381538
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1999
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, SPENCER STREET
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
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