Congregational Church is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1985. Church.
Congregational Church
- WRENN ID
- rooted-stone-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hertsmere
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1985
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Congregational Church, built in 1904 by P. Morley-Horder, is a chapel located on Bushey High Street. It is constructed of red brick with stone dressings and features a slate roof in a Free Gothic style. The building has a five-bay hall with a tower. The front gable includes a three-stage square tower on the left and a two-storey entrance block on the right. The entrance is located in the tower and has a moulded four-centred arch. Stone bands accentuate the structure, and the lower stage features three-light windows with pointed heads, square hood moulds, and diagonal buttresses. The second stage contains paired louvred openings, while the upper stage is adorned with four-light cross windows with cusped heads.
The front gable has a large window with a pointed head and rectilinear tracery, flanked by two two-light square-headed ground floor windows. A stone plinth supports the building, and there are two buttresses along with a two-light window on the projecting entrance block to the right, which features a four-centred head over an entrance with a three-light window above. The entrance block has a coped parapet and a diagonal buttress. The five-bay return elevations each have three large windows with pointed heads and intersecting tracery, with twin gables over two bays towards the rear and smaller square-headed windows towards the front. A projecting vestry is located at the rear left.
Inside, the church features a pseudo hammer beam roof with arched braces and quatrefoils in the spandrels. There is a vestibule below the gallery at the front end, which has canted ends and trefoil-headed pierced panels. A pointed moulded arch leads to the canted apse end, and the flanking doors to the vestries have stone moulded four-centred arched surrounds. The original seating remains intact.
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