United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1977. Church. 1 related planning application.
United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- odd-corridor-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire East
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1977
- Type
- Church
- Address
- United Reformed Church, Park Green, Macclesfield
- OS grid reference
- SJ 918 733
- Coordinates
- 53.2569, -2.12407
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reformed Church, formerly a Congregational church, was built in 1877 and designed by C.O. Ellison. It features uncoursed freestone with a Welsh slate roof and is styled in Gothic architecture. The church has a south-west tower, a single-span main body of the chapel, and gabled offices to the north.
The south elevation includes a recessed porch with paired entrance arches supported by polished granite shafts, flanked by small trefoiled windows under a continuous hoodmould. There are doorways to the east and west within the porch. Above the porch is a stepped triple window, with shafts that support a moulded arch. The tower is located to the right, with the porch set into the south wall between flying buttresses. The doorway has paired shafts, and the tower features lancet windows in its first and second stages, topped with paired lights in the bell chamber. The tall angle pinnacles on the parapet are accented by stressed gabled decorations that rise above the bell chamber.
The main body of the chapel is two-storeyed, with a canted porch to the west. It is divided by shallow buttresses into three bays, each bay containing a trefoiled window on both floors.
Local climate
United Reformed Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings