United Reformed Church and Memorial Stone Beside North Wall is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Church. 1 related planning application.
United Reformed Church and Memorial Stone Beside North Wall
- WRENN ID
- slow-stone-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- United Reformed Church and Memorial Stone Beside North Wall, Chapel Lane, Fowlmere, SG8 7SA
- OS grid reference
- TL 421 455
- Coordinates
- 52.09026, 0.07346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reformed Church, located on Chapel Lane in Fowlmere, is a chapel built around 1780, with an apse added in 1870, a bell tower and clock from 1881, and restoration work completed in 1878. The building features a timber frame with rough cast render and 19th-century gault brick, topped with 20th-century ridge-tiled hipped and gabled roofs.
This two-storey chapel has a single-storey school room to the west and a bell tower that rises above the two-storey structure at the south-west corner. The chapel has a square plan and a polygonal apse, with a symmetrical west front that includes a gabled projection flanked by lean-to open porches, and gault brick quoins. The central window on the west front is two storeys high, accompanied by two gallery windows and additional side elevation windows, all featuring round-headed arches and original leaded lights. The diagonal boarded doors on either side are adorned with patterned iron hinges shaped to match the round arches.
The school room showcases pierced gable bargeboards with a drop finial, a round apex window, and two casement windows set in cambered brick arches. The bell tower has panelled brick walls, a clock on the north face, and louvred belfry lights. Inside, there is a gallery on three sides with a panelled front supported by cast iron columns. The organ, installed in the 19th century, was made by Hen Jones of London. Additionally, there is a memorial stone, a limestone slab inscribed in memory of Rev. William Merchand, who died in 1810, and his wife Mary.
Local climate
United Reformed Church and Memorial Stone Beside North Wall sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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