Bamford United Reformed Church

SD 81 SE HEYWOOD NORDEN ROAD (north west side) 6/20 Bamford United Reformed Church G.V. II

Congregational chapel and Sunday School. Chapel 1801 although it would appear that the facade is of a later date. Sunday School 1861. Chapel, ashlar with brick chancel: school, coursed rubble, both with slate roofs. Meeting hall with 3-sided gallery, small chancel and C20 toilet block at rear. The Sunday school is attached to the left; it has 2 storeys, a large hall on the first floor and a C20 wing at the rear. Chapel is 5-bay with triple-gable and advanced triple porch with gables, the central one giving access to the gallery staircase. All the gables are separated by buttresses with pinnacles and gableted weatherings. Each bay has a lancet window with hoodmould and marginal glazing bars, that to the stair porch being a double-lancet with plate-tracery. The door openings have 4-centred arched and the gables are coped. School is 2-bay by 4-bay with quoins, mullion and transom windows with flush stone relieving arches, central weathered buttress to front and coped gables. The side at first floor has a slightly advanced bay on corbels, incorporating a 2-light pointed window with gabled dormer and 4-flue chimney stack. Interior: timber parapeted gallery rests on quatrefoil cast iron columns; chancel arch, panelled ceiling and elaborate cornice. The manse house despite being important to the group is largely altered and not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SD8594812544