United Reformed Church And Attached Parish Rooms

This is a United Reformed Church with attached parish rooms, built in 1905 by H Tatham Sudbury of Ilkeston, in an Art Nouveau Gothic style. The church is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and a plain tile roof, and includes a nave, chancel, aisles, a north-east tower, transepts, a west porch, and parish rooms attached to the south-east corner.

The north elevation, facing the ritual west, features a tower with set-back buttresses. It has a chamfered plinth and four horizontal bands of stone corresponding to window lintel and sill levels. A chamfered mullion window with three lights is set into the east face. Steps lead to a doorway with an ashlar surround and perpendicular (Perp) style panel tracery in the spandrels, above which is a three-light mullion window. The bell stage has a perpendicular style three-light window, flanked by trefoiled panels, and shields in the spandrels. Similar bell openings are present on the other three sides. The tower is topped with a castellated parapet, pinnacles, and a copper spire. To the right of the tower is a broad gabled bay with a chamfered mullion window with two lights either side of a buttress. Above is a large five-light gothic window with cusped ogee tracery. This is flanked by tapering buttresses with ogee niches. A porch to the right has a three-light mullioned window.

The west elevation has a porch to the left with tapering buttresses, surmounted by a polychromatic gable. To the right are three bays with lean-to aisles extending to the basement, which has casement windows. Above are broad pointed arched casement windows serving as clerestory lights to the basement. Further mullioned windows with square heads illuminate the church’s aisle. Large three-light gothic clerestory windows, with cusped tracery, are positioned above. A transeptal projection is present to the right. The east elevation exhibits a similar pattern with four tiers of windows. The left transeptal projection has set-back buttresses and two large casement windows, with depressed gothic arches, lighting the basement. A single five-light pointed arched window with cusped tracery is positioned above.

The parish rooms extend east in an L-shape. They have a canted end to the east, with casement windows in the basement and mullioned cross windows above.