Bamford United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Chapel.
Bamford United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- eastward-jade-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Bamford United Reformed Church, Norden Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 859 125
- Coordinates
- 53.60928, -2.21385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bamford United Reformed Church is a Congregational chapel and Sunday School built in 1801, although the facade appears to be from a later date. The Sunday School was constructed in 1861. The chapel is made of ashlar with a brick chancel, while the school is built from coursed rubble, both featuring slate roofs. The meeting hall includes a three-sided gallery, a small chancel, and a 20th-century toilet block at the rear. The Sunday School, attached to the left, has two storeys, with a large hall on the first floor and a 20th-century wing at the back.
The chapel has five bays with a triple-gable design and an advanced triple porch with gables, the central one providing access to the gallery staircase. Each gable is separated by buttresses with pinnacles and gableted weatherings. Each bay features a lancet window with a hoodmould and marginal glazing bars, while the stair porch has a double-lancet window with plate-tracery. The door openings are 4-centred arched, and the gables are coped. The school has a two-bay by four-bay layout with quoins, mullion and transom windows, and flush stone relieving arches. It also features a central weathered buttress at the front and coped gables. The first-floor side has a slightly advanced bay on corbels, incorporating a two-light pointed window with a gabled dormer and a four-flue chimney stack.
Inside, the timber parapeted gallery rests on quatrefoil cast iron columns, and there is a chancel arch, a panelled ceiling, and an elaborate cornice. The manse house, while important to the group, has been largely altered and is not of special interest.
Local climate
Bamford United Reformed Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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