United Reformed Church

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165SE SPENCER STREET 1208-1/8/378 (North side) 19/11/53 United Reformed Church (Formerly Listed as: SPENCER STREET (North side) Congregational Chapel)

GV II

Congregational Chapel, now United Reformed Church. 1836-1838. Pinkish-brown brick with Welsh slate roof and painted stucco front facade. Neo-Classical style. EXTERIOR: single tall storey, 3 bays. Double-chamfered plinth. Giant Doric pilasters clasp angles. Flight of 4 steps to tetrastyle pedimented Ionic portico with single column and engaged pilaster to sides, continuous frieze and cornice with parapet to outer bays and behind pediment. Central entrance: triple fielded-panel doors with overlight with glazing bars in tooled architrave and with cornice and low pediment. To either side a tall round-arched window with stained glass in moulded architraves and with sills with feet. Hipped roof. To each return the first bay is stuccoed and projects with Doric pilaster to angles and with entrance a plank door in tooled architrave with cornice on corbels. Tall plinth, 6 similar windows with pilaster strips between; frieze, wide eaves. INTERIOR: has gallery on 3 sides supported on cast-iron columns with second floor gallery on rear wall. HISTORICAL NOTE: Spencer Street laid out 1832-1839. (Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past.. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 32).

Listing NGR: SP3185765405