Former United Reform Church
FORMER UNITED REFORM CHURCH, CROSS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385120
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Former United Reform Church
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER UNITED REFORM CHURCH, CROSS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385120
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Sept-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Former United Reform Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER UNITED REFORM CHURCH, CROSS 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:
- FORMER UNITED REFORM CHURCH, CROSS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 55759 33169
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5533SE CROSS STREET
684-1/7/110 (South side)
31/08/88 Former United Reform Church
(Formerly Listed as:
CROSS STREET
(South side)
United Reformed Church)
GV II
Congregational church. 1870. By RD Gould and Son, designed in
the `Middle Pointed Style'. Squared slatestone rubble with
detail in limestone and local stone; rear wall partly of red
brick. Slated roofs with red crested ridge tiles.
5-window range in 2 stages, with emphasis on the left-hand
bay. Ground storey has 3 small segmental-headed, traceried
windows flanked by a doorway at either end. Larger, left-hand
doorway has moulded, enriched 2-centred arch enclosed within a
steeply-pitched, gabled hood springing from short columns,
which in turn rest on moulded imposts; the hood is decorated
with crockets and a finial. The doorway is subdivided by a
pillar, upon which sits an angel bearing a scroll inscribed
`Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts'. Upper storey has
tall, pointed traceried windows, each one set under a gable.
Left-hand window is of 4 lights, the remainder 2 lights, these
4 windows also have finials on the gables above them. Rear
wall also contains traceried windows. INTERIOR: altered.
(Gardiner WF: Barnstaple, 1837-1897: 1897-: 99).
Listing NGR: SS5575933169
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485582
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gardiner, W F, Barnstaple 1837-1897, (1897), 99
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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