Embleton United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Church.
Embleton United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- tilted-iron-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Embleton United Reformed Church, Front Street
- OS grid reference
- NU 231 225
- Coordinates
- 55.49658, -1.63477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Embleton United Reformed Church is a Presbyterian church built in 1833 and altered around 1920. The west front features squared and coursed whinstone blocks, while the other sides are made of whinstone rubble with raised whin quoins and dressings, and are rendered and pebbledashed. It has cut sandstone sills, lintels, and gable copings, topped with a Welsh slate roof.
The west front consists of four bays. The center bays have tall pointed windows with wood Y-tracery, each containing a Gothick-headed 16-pane sash window, and a roundel above with the date. The right end bay features a 12-pane Gothick sash window under a pointed arch, with a similar blocked window above. The left end bay has a gabled porch from around 1920, which includes flush-panelled double doors in a bolection-moulded surround on the left side. The front of the porch has a small window with a slit above, under a coped gable supported by moulded kneelers, topped with a ball finial. Above the porch is another blocked pointed window. The gables are coped with moulded kneelers. At the right end, there is a small single-storey extension with a 9-pane sash window.
The two-bay left return facing the street has 12-pane sashes in the left bay, while the right bay has a similar blocked window now holding a noticeboard, under a Diocletian window from around 1920. The three-bay rear elevation features 16-pane sashes and a flush-panelled door with a 4-pane overlight.
The interior was remodeled around 1920, when the side parts of the gallery were removed and the rear part, supported by two cast-iron columns on stepped ashlar bases, was converted into a separate upper hall.
Local climate
Embleton United Reformed Church receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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