United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. Church.

United Reformed Church

WRENN ID
gentle-outpost-candle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Riding of Yorkshire
Constituency
Bridlington and The Wolds MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1985
Type
Church
Address
United Reformed Church, New Road, Hornsea
OS grid reference
TA 205 478
Coordinates
53.9125, -0.16652
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The United Reformed Church, built in 1868 as a Congregational Church, is a Gothic Revival style building located on Cliff Road in Hornsea. It features light brown brick with red brick dressings and a slate roof. The church has a three-stage south-west tower topped with a broach spire, a continuous three-bay nave, and a two-bay chancel, along with a west porch.

The tower includes a south door set under a shouldered lintel in a pointed opening, which has a blank sexfoil and two roundels in the tympanum. The second stage of the tower features paired lancets with a detached central colonette beneath an octofoil window in a pointed opening. The belfry has paired lancets with paired central colonnettes that have annuli and carved capitals, and there is a central clock under a gablet. The broach spire is adorned with a moulded band and a foliated finial.

The west porch has a double-chamfered plinth and buttresses with offsets, leading to a pointed opening. It contains double boarded west doors beneath a five-light pointed window with Geometrical plate tracery. The belfry features three stepped lancets with louvres.

The nave has a chamfered plinth and buttresses with offsets. The central bay is highlighted by a three-light pointed window with Geometrical plate tracery under a gable, flanked by paired trefoil-headed lancets with oculi above in pointed openings. The building is finished with a dentilled brick eaves cornice and ridge cresting. The transepts have two-light pointed windows to the east and west with Geometrical tracery, and a large octofoil window in the gable.

Inside, there is a west gallery that is now blocked, and round piers with decorated capitals supporting the transepts.

Local climate

United Reformed Church receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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