United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1986. Church.
United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- twisted-crypt-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wyre
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- United Reformed Church, Forton
- OS grid reference
- SD 488 512
- Coordinates
- 53.95456, -2.78131
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reformed Church, originally a Congregational church, was built in 1760 on the site of a church from 1706-1707. It underwent alterations in 1870 and the 1920s. The church is constructed from sandstone rubble and features a slate M-roof. It is a single-storey building with a facade that includes chamfered quoins and one bay on each side of a gabled porch. The windows are tall, with plain stone surrounds, round heads, keystones, and impost blocks, each rising under a small gable. The porch has a doorway with a moulded pointed surround. On the left-hand (east) wall, there are twin gables and two windows similar to those at the front. Inside, there is an 18th-century pulpit, believed to have come from St. Michael's on Wyre, featuring raised and fielded panels and a stair with slim turned balusters.
Local climate
United Reformed Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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