United Reform Church

LUTTERWORTH GEORGE STREET SP5484 1323-0/9/72 (East side) 11/01/55 United Reform Church (Formerly Listed as: GEORGE STREET Congregational Church) GV II

United Reform Church. Dated 1777, but probably rebuilt in early C19. Red brick with painted pilaster quoins, window arches and moulded cornice, and rendered bands and door-surround. Moulded platband over ground floor and cillband to upper floor. Low hipped Swithland slate roof with ridge running front to back. Two storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front, in segment-headed surrounds with keyblocks. Paired casements with glazing bars, radiating above. Pilastered entrance-surround with frieze and cornice to paired six-panel doors with overlights. Two-storey single-bay extension to right in similar style. Panelled door below with Gothick-glazed fanlight. Left return elevation of three windows on two storeys with band and moulded cornice. Datestone of 1777 above door refers to the building of the chapel after the reunion of the two Lutterworth Congregations following an earlier secession. Interior: altered in late C19 but retaining original galleries around three sides and hexagonal pulpit. There are various C18 monuments. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Williamson E, Brandwood G: Leicestershire and Rutland: London: 1984-: 301; Royal Commission on Historical Monuments Inventories: Stell C: An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses: London: 1986-: 129).

Listing NGR: SP5441484630