United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Knowsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1987. Church.

United Reformed Church

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Knowsley
Constituency
Knowsley MP: Anneliese Midgley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1987
Type
Church
Address
United Reformed Church, Victoria Road
OS grid reference
SJ 446 908
Coordinates
53.41132, -2.83392
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The United Reformed Church is a Non-conformist church built between 1889 and 1890 by architect W.D. Caröe. It is constructed of stone with a slate roof and features a nave with gabled aisles, a north transept, a chancel with a north tower, and a south vestry and hall.

The west front has aisles that are recessed behind lean-to porches. The nave includes three lancet windows and a rose window above a small gabled buttress, flanked by gabled buttresses. The porches feature gabled entrances of one order, while the aisles contain five lancets, with the outer ones being blind. On the north side, the aisle has lancet triplets under hoodmoulds situated between gabled buttresses. The transept consists of two gabled bays with paired lancets and blind quatrefoils above.

The tower is characterized by set-back buttresses topped with octagonal pinnacles, a north gabled stair turret with a lancet, and a gabled porch. It has a weathered sill supporting a four-bay blind arcade with two-light openings and louvred bell openings of two orders. The broach spire features lucarnes and a weathercock. The east end of the chancel has gabled angle buttresses and a central buttress, with four short lancets and four stepped lancets above, all under a hood mould with a top trefoil. The north lean-to vestry has paired lancets, while the south hall has two bays with square-headed windows and a gabled vestry to the west. The south aisle features an east two-light window with plate tracery above the vestry.

Inside, the church has stone-faced interiors with four-bay arcades on quatrefoil piers. The nave and aisles are separated by diaphragm arches with two pierced round-headed openings. There is a two-bay arcade leading to the transept. The font, located in the west recess, has a central pier surrounded by six outer piers and trefoil-headed panels. The half-hexagonal stone pulpit features five small shafts and two taller outer shafts, with a cornice that has dog-tooth moulding. The chancel includes a diaphragm arch on wall shafts, a north organ loft, a gabled buttress at the east end, and stalls.

Local climate

United Reformed Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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