Cowbridge Halls To Hertford United Reform Church

HERTFORD

TL3212NW COWBRIDGE 817-1/16/56 (South side) Cowbridge Halls to Hertford United Reform Church

GV II

Church halls and former caretaker's house. 1891-2. Architect James Farley. Knapped flint, with grey brick and sandstone dressings, yellow stock brick at sides, Welsh slated roof, gabled to street, with hipped ends at sides, and triangular gabled ventilators high up. Free late 13th century Gothic revival style to complement Congregational (now United Reform) Church (qv) to east. EXTERIOR: 2-storey front (to single storey interior). Ground floor has central doorway in twin brick pointed arches, with outer stone dripmould. Twin leaf battened doors. Stone kneelers support stone fanlight with heavy plate tracery with three cusped trefoiled circular openings. Single lancets left and right, stone with cusped trefoil heads below pointed arched stone dripmould, linked by band to dripmould over central door. Above stone band is large central window, twin paired stone lancets with cusped trefoil heads, and cusped trefoils above, with large central circular opening, with inner recessed quatrefoil. Flint infilling below outer stone dripmould and brick double header pointed arches. Moulded band and brick gable parapet (simplified in reconstruction from original brick dentil courses), stone kneelers and stone coping. Octagonal turrets, flint with brick dressings, at angles (former pinnacles now missing). Single storey left and right of centre, coupled stone lancets, with chamfered trefoil heads, flint panel above, and brick header pointed inner arch below outer stone dripmould. Brick dentil and splay courses below eaves of Welsh slated roof. Side elevation, two bays flint, with buttresses of brick and flint with stone offsets, remainder of flank in yellow-brown stock bricks, two storey at rear for former caretaker's house. INTERIOR: of large hall has 5-bay open timber roof with braced tie beam trusses and boarded ceiling.

Listing NGR: TL3238712757