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
Constituency
Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 August 1998
Type
Church
Address
St Andrews United Reform Church, Newgate Street, CH1 1DE
OS grid reference
SJ 406 661
Coordinates
53.18914, -2.88932
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

Local climate

St Andrews United Reform Church receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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