Former Heaton Moor United Reform Church and attached Sunday School

The building comprises a former United Reform (originally Congregational) Church with an attached Sunday School, constructed in 1896 by Darbyshire & Smith, architects of Manchester. The church is built of tooled rubble sandstone with Welsh slate roofs. Its plan includes a nave with narrow aisles, a steeple and porch flanking the entrance front, transepts, and a choir.

The west front features a large four-light geometric tracery window between two lower lancets, with three lancets below, illuminating a narthex. Stone banding and moulded strings are present. The steeple has a double chamfered arched doorway, two-light Y tracery windows, and a belfry stage with belfry openings set in projecting faces, battered above with gables containing clocks. Attached shafts with pinnacles clasp the octagonal spire, with shafts between the belfry faces. A separately gabled porch, balancing the steeple, has a double chamfered arched doorway. The side elevations display three three-light windows to the clerestory, and paired lancets to the aisles. The transepts have three-light windows, while utilitarian offices are located at the choir ends, with a ridge fleche above.

Inside, the church has a large, open space; octagonal piers support double chamfered arches to the arcade, with the transept arcade taller than the others. A choir arch rests on corbelled shafts. High Victorian style furnishings are present, including a narthex screen decorated with punched quatrefoils and trefoils.

The Sunday School has a double fronted entrance elevation, with each bay separately gabled and featuring Y tracery windows. A gabled central porch leads to a taller, recessed hall, also gabled, with a sextafoil in a roundel and a blind trefoil in the gable wall. The side elevations of the Sunday School are of brick and are relatively plain. The Sunday School is included for its group value.

The building represents a good example of a late 19th century Congregational Church, built in a confident Gothic style, and features a large, uninterrupted internal space.