Waterloo United Free Church And Attached Church Hall

Waterloo United Free Church and the attached church hall is a Baptist church built in 1910, possibly by George Baines & Sons. The building is constructed of Accrington red brick with buff terracotta dressings and features slate roofs, while the sides and rear are made of common brick with yellow brick bands. The architectural style is Arts and Crafts Gothic.

The church has a symmetrical, two-storey gabled facade. The gable showcases terracotta chequerwork and coping that rises to a square finial with diagonal spouts. The facade includes short side wings formed by the porches. The central area features a shallow porch with diagonal buttresses that end in square brattished terracotta turrets. There is a wide segmental-pointed doorway with a terracotta surround, which includes a traceried three-light overlight and a gable with mouchette enrichment. Above this doorway is a two-centred arched traceried three-light window with a cavetto surround and a hoodmould adorned with foliated stops.

The boldly modelled porch wings have terracotta bands and oversailing eaves supported by wrought-iron brackets. Each wing contains a square-headed doorway set in a terracotta segmental-pointed arch with a chamfered surround and blind multifoil arcading above which are a pair of narrow lancet windows with deep splayed reveals and terracotta cusping in the heads. The two-storey side walls each have two windows, with three-light windows on both floors; the ground floor windows are segmental-headed and all feature terracotta tracery in the heads. The transepts have two similar windows beneath a large traceried three-light window.

The church hall, which is linked at the rear and runs parallel to the church on the north side, has side aisles under cat-slide roofs. Its three-bay gabled facade is designed in a similar style, featuring a wide central doorway that combines elements from the church doorways and a large two-centred arched five-light window, flanked by brick pilasters with niches. The interior has not been inspected.