Embleton United Reformed Church

NU 2322 EMBLETON FRONT STREET (South side)

14/80 Embleton United Reformed Church

GV II

Presbyterian Church, dated 1833, altered c.1920. West front squared and coursed whinstone blocks, other elevations whinstone rubble, with raised whin quoins and dressings, rendered and pebbledashed; cut sandstone sills, lintels and gable copings. Welsh slate roof.

West front 4 bays. Centre bays have tall pointed windows with wood Y-tracery, each light holding a Gothick-headed 16-pane sash; roundel above and between with date. Right end bay has a 12-pane Gothick sash under a pointed arch, with a similar blocked window above; left end bay has a gabled porch of c.1920 with flush-panelled double doors in bolection-moulded surround on the left return; on front a small window with slit above, under coped gable, on moulded kneelers, with ball finial; above the porch is another blocked pointed window. Coped gables with moulded kneelers. At right end a small single-storey extension with a 9-pane sash window.

2-bay left return, to street, shows 12-pane sashes in left bay; right bay has similar blocked window (now holding noticeboard) under Diocletian window of c.1920. 3-bay rear elevation shows 16-pane sashes and flush-panelled door with 4-pane overlight.

Interior remodelled c.1920, when side parts of gallery removed and rear part, carried on two cast-iron columns on stepped ashlar bases, converted to separate upper hall.

Listing NGR: NU2317422593