Congregational Church And Sunday School

The Congregational Church, now known as the United Reformed Church, was built in 1836 and features an attached school from the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof that has stone gable copings and a chimney. The church is oriented with the ritual east at the south and includes a nave with a west lobby, an east vestry, and the school.

The exterior has a gabled front facing Hall Street, featuring a central wide double six-panel door with a semicircular overlight that has intersecting glazing bars. This is set within a tooled projecting stone surround, complete with impost blocks and a keystone. The flanking 30-pane stair sash windows, which also have glazing bars, are topped with flat stone lintels and have projecting stone sills. Above, there is a similar window, and an oval stone date panel in the gable displays well-cut letters, though the figure '1' is missing. The roof has gable coping on moulded kneelers and a small chimney at the rear. The elevation facing Queen Street has two similar sashes on the ground floor and two more at the gallery level. The rear school extension is a single storey with two similar windows in the gable facing Queen Street, featuring moulded gable kneelers and a corniced ridge chimney.

Inside, there are stairs on each side of the entrance lobby, leading to a nave that has a blocked gallery on three sides and an east pulpit. The curved gallery is supported by cast-iron pillars and features reeded pilasters with a panelled parapet. The ceiling has been altered to rest on the gallery parapet, creating a keeled shape. The pulpit is raised on a boarded platform and has blind Y-tracery in the wooden east arcade. The handrail has mostly been renewed along with the cast-iron balusters. The pine pews have horizontal boarding and panelled ends, complete with umbrella racks. There is a panelled dado that is partly raised and fielded, along with shaped boarded screens flanking two six-panel east doors from the lobby. A memorial panel on the wall commemorates Reverend B Wilkinson, who died on December 28, 1893, after serving as pastor for five and a half years.