United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 April 1984. Church.

United Reformed Church

WRENN ID
gaunt-flue-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Epping Forest
Constituency
Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 April 1984
Type
Church
Address
United Reformed Church, High Street, Ongar
OS grid reference
TL 552 027
Coordinates
51.70222, 0.2452
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The United Reformed Church, built around 1833 to the design of John Sadd, is a church constructed from gault brick with a return wall made of early yellow stocks and a grey slate roof. It features a 20th-century central porch that extends forward and is designed to match the main building as closely as possible. This porch includes four pilaster strips, four panelled double doors, and a pediment.

The main structure is two storeys high and has a gable with a roundel that includes foliar infill. The first floor has three windows, while the ground floor has two ranges of 18th-century small paned vertical sliding sashes with coloured, patterned glazed margins. There are recessed side strips and an upper central window that is adorned with moulded stone brackets and a patera beneath a flat canopy. The ground floor windows are framed by moulded stone surrounds and canopies.

Additional architectural details include a central band, a moulded band at the eaves, and a moulded cornice at the gable. The return wall consists of four bays with pilaster strips and four full-length small paned windows featuring gauged brick arches and keystones, although one window is now blocked. Notably, Congregational Minister Isaac Taylor and David Livingstone preached in this church.

Local climate

United Reformed Church sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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