Castle Hedingham United Reform Church

Castle Hedingham United Reform Church is a chapel built around 1842, possibly designed by James Fenton, replacing an earlier building from 1708. This classical structure is made of gault brick with stone dressings and features a grey slate roof. It has two storeys and consists of seven bays, with the central five bays projecting forward and topped with a pediment. The building has projecting eaves with a moulded cornice, pilasters on either side, and three central forward bays. A stone band runs across the front.

The first floor has a window arrangement of 1:1:3:1:1, while the ground floor features a 1:3:1 window arrangement. The windows are small-paned with glazed margins and gauged brick arches. The first-floor windows have semi-circular moulded stone heads and moulded stone labels on either side. The entrance consists of two-panelled double doors with glazed margin lights above, flanked by stone pilasters with capitals and plain friezes. A semi-circular louvre is set into the pediment.

The side elevations include a front projecting bay with a blank round-headed window and three additional bays with round-headed windows for the galleries, along with cambered-headed windows below. Inside, the chapel retains an 18th-century pulpit, from which Dr. Isaac Watts is said to have preached, likely from the earlier chapel. The interior is predominantly from 1842, featuring galleries on three sides supported by slender cast iron columns and a nearly complete set of box pews in both the galleries and the main body of the chapel. The front row of centre pews has been cut away to accommodate a later 19th-century wooden enclosure in front of the pulpit. The ceiling includes a plaster rose and four circular ventilation holes, and there are three marble wall tablets dated 1822, 1836, and 1883.