St Andrews United Reform Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1998. Church. 2 related planning applications.
St Andrews United Reform Church
- WRENN ID
- eternal-copper-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1998
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Andrews United Reform Church is a Presbyterian Church of England, now serving as a United Reformed church. It was built in 1860 by architects JW and J Hay, with later work completed in 1884 by Kelly and Edwards. The church features a combination of ashlar yellow sandstone and brown brick in English garden wall bond, with some areas rendered and topped with purple-grey slate roofs.
The entrance, which is located south of the main body of the church and has a reversed liturgical orientation, is designed in a 13th-century style. It includes a double plinth and double boarded doors set within an archway supported by colonnettes, adorned with foliar capitals and ballflowers. To the left of the entrance is a lancet window, while above are twin 2-light windows featuring trefoil and quatrefoil tracery. The gable includes a quatrefoil window, and to the left is an octagonal belfry topped with a stone spire, with a pinnacle on the right. The sides of the entrance and the church are constructed of brick and have slate roofs. The north side of the church is simply designed, featuring five triple lancets, while the liturgical west end has five lancets, with the central one being taller. The liturgical east end showcases a rose window with stone tracery, dating from 1860, and the body of the church was rebuilt in 1884.
Inside, the church consists of five bays supported by cast-iron columns that carry arch-braced trusses. Each bay has triple clerestory lancets above the aisles, which have lean-to roofs. The rose window contains patterned stained glass. The interior retains original pews, an organ, and the Lord's Table, along with screens in the liturgical south-east and north-east corners.
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