United Reformed Church

The United Reformed Church, formerly known as the Ebenezer Congregational Church, is a Gothic Revival church built in 1884 by Walter Hanstock. It features a Decorated style with a front made of white Holmfirth ashlar and hammer dressed stone, topped with a pitched Westmorland slate roof that has gable copings. The building stands two storeys tall, with a string course between the levels decorated with anthemion motifs.

The church has six gabled bays on the sides, separated by buttresses, and a four-bay front where the central two bays are gabled. These are flanked by shaped buttresses that rise to form elaborate turrets. The large central portal is arched and gabled, featuring three grey granite colonnettes in the reveals and is richly decorated with carved foliage. Above the portal, there are two square-headed doorways, and in the tympanum, a well-carved scene of the Resurrection is depicted, accompanied by six small cusped lights. The two large arched three-light windows above the portal have a large rose in the head and two red granite colonnettes in the reveals. The flanking bays contain paired lights on the ground floor and small three-light windows with large sexfoils in the heads on the first floor, each topped with a small gable. The side elevation windows are three-light with tracery, featuring cambered heads on the ground floor and pointed arches on the first floor, adorned with three foiled circles in the head. The high standard of stone carving throughout the church is particularly noteworthy.

Inside, the church has a gallery at the rear and both sides, supported by cast iron columns with elaborate foliated capitals. This design continues at the gallery level, where the side walls are treated as an arcade. The interior includes a panelled pulpit, a communion table, and a gallery front, with pews made of varnished pitch-pine featuring bench-ends. A good organ case is located in the six-sided apse end, and there is an elaborate plaster frieze along with a vaulted panelled roof. The church has a seating capacity of 436 in the main body and 400 in the gallery.

The entrance is accessed by steps flanked by walls and square, very elaborate, panelled piers with intricate caps.