Boulevard United Reformed Church And Attached Steps And Boundary Wall

The Boulevard United Reformed Church, along with its attached steps and boundary wall, was built between 1884 and 1899. It is constructed of rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs, featuring terracotta ornamentation in the gables, and is designed in the Gothic Revival style.

The building comprises a chancel, a nave with a clerestory and aisles, a north-west tower with a spire, all with basements, and adjoining vestry and parlour. The chancel has a round window to the east and flat-headed three-light windows on each side. The clerestory has five flat-headed three-light windows to the south, and four to the north. The west end of the nave has two segment-arched basement doors positioned above an arcaded window with seven round-arched lights and shafts, topped by a panel tracery window of five lights with an ogee head. The aisles feature a three-light window in each bay, with segment-arched basement windows below, separated by shallow buttresses. A pointed arched door with steps leads from the south aisle to the west end. The square, two-stage tower has angle buttresses with round pinnacles, a terracotta band, and a shaped ashlar parapet. It incorporates steps leading to a pointed arched door, above which is a traceried two-light window. A set-back, octagonal slated spire with a corona crowns the tower. The vestry and parlour, flanking the chancel, have segment-headed windows. A rockfaced stone boundary wall runs along each side and across the west end, faced with slab coping and square corner piers, and includes a central opening with steps to the basement.

The interior is rendered. The chancel features a moulded pointed arch with shaft imposts, flanked by doors, and a scissor braced roof. The nave has a wagon roof with wall shafts, and ornamental iron tie rods. The four-bay arcades have moulded arches, hood moulds and fluted round columns with enclosed bases. A panelled gallery is located at the rear. The aisles incorporate lean-to roofs and single stained glass windows dating from 1918 and 1929. The basement provides cast-iron columns and screened-off Sunday School rooms. The parlour has matchboard wainscotting on the ceiling and steps. Notable fittings include a traceried panelled octagonal wooden pulpit and matching table, along with a marble and slate memorial tablet dated 1860.