Union Street United Reformed And Methodist Church

The Union Street United Reformed and Methodist Church, originally a Congregational chapel, was built in 1877. It features rusticated rubble construction, coursed and squared in small blocks, topped with a slate roof. The church has a tower and a nave with two aisles. A squat central tower is located in the south wall, which includes a six-light Decorated window with a hoodmould, and doors that are recessed to the east and west within a wide, plain, stepped Early English arch leading to the porch. Inside the porch, there is an enriched trefoiled window in the south wall. The tower is supported by buttresses and has an embattled parapet. Each side of the tower features shallow copings to the aisles, with foiled lancet windows in the south walls. The east and west walls are divided by buttresses into four bays, each containing a foiled lancet window. Above, there is a wood clerestory with continuous trefoiled lights. The northern gable has a small three-light Decorated window, and there are single-storeyed rooms with hipped roofs projecting beyond, which have paired two-light windows. The property is enclosed by cast-iron railings and gates set on a low plinth wall between stone piers to the south and east.