Emmanuel United Reformed Church

Emmanuel United Reformed Church is a church built in 1874 by James Cubitt, designed in a modified Early English style. It is constructed of stone and features slate roofs. The church includes a west tower, nave, aisles, and sanctuary.

The tower is four stages high, with set-back buttresses on the lower three stages. It has an arched west doorway with two orders of shafts leading up to a gable, which contains a quatrefoil in the tympanum. There are string courses between the storeys, and the second stage is illuminated by a plate-tracery rose window. The narrow ringing chamber has three lancets on each side. The tall octagonal belfry stage features square pinnacles that emerge from the buttresses and end in openwork tabernacle pinnacles. Each cardinal side of the belfry has one louvred lancet, with one order of shafts that have stiff-leaf capitals and dog-tooth detailing in the arches. The tower is topped with a short octagonal spire that has tabernacle lucarnes on each side.

On the south side of the tower, there is a two-stage polygonal stair turret accessed through a doorway beneath a gablet, which is lit by cusped lancets below a plain parapet. The aisles have sloping roofs with lancet windows. The clerestory on the north and south sides features two groups of windows, each consisting of two tall lancets flanked by one short lancet on either side, beneath an encircled quatrefoil. The sanctuary is a short polygonal space with three pairs of lancets. A narthex was added in 1991 by Bland, Brown & Cole.

Inside, the church is entirely stone-faced and has a two-bay nave. The wide moulded arcade arches rest on low double drum piers with stiff-leaf capitals. The principal clerestory windows have internal shafts, and the tall chancel arch is supported by engaged colonnettes with stiff-leaf capitals and corbels. Similar colonnettes support wall posts that rise to a double arch-braced roof with pierced spandrels. The chancel has facets on either side of the chancel arch with blind twin lancets. There is a west gallery under the tower with a rosewood balustrade. The stained glass in the sanctuary lancets, created in 1905 by Morris & Co., depicts Puritans with connections to Cambridge.