Minshull United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Church. 1 related planning application.

Minshull United Reformed Church

WRENN ID
over-barrel-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Chester South and Eddisbury MP: Aphra Brandreth (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Church
Address
Minshull United Reformed Church, Eardswick Lane, Minshull Vernon, CW1 4RH
OS grid reference
SJ 677 606
Coordinates
53.14191, -2.48341
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Minshull United Reformed Church, originally listed as the Congregational Church, is a Nonconformist church built in 1809, with later 19th-century alterations. The church is constructed of brown brick and features a renewed tile roof, consisting of four bays. The west elevation has been rebuilt in Flemish Bond and includes a mid-19th-century porch with a gothic opening, a drip mould with moulded stops, and a framed ledged and braced door on strap hinges. The gable has coping with kneelers and side buttresses topped with stone weathered caps. The windows on both sides of the church are two-light mullioned with cusped ogee tracery, flat heads, leaded lights, and stained glass. An original round-headed window with "Y" tracery remains in the north gable of the nave. The building features a moulded eaves cornice and bowtell moulded gable copings with ball finials.

Inside, there is a dado rail with pitch pine wainscotting up to the window sill level. The pulpit is accompanied by flanking steps, and there is an organ on the east side, fronted by a communion rail in a "U" shape with rounded angles and heavy balusters. The benches have gothic-shaped ends. The walls above the dado are plastered, and the ceiling is flat and plastered. A four-panel bolection moulded door links to the Sunday School in the southeast, which also features wainscotting and composite collar trusses, with a boarded raking ceiling above exposed rafters.

Local climate

Minshull United Reformed Church receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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