United Reformed Church

The United Reformed Church, located on Stoke Road in Nayland With Wissington, is a Nonconformist church built in 1864, as indicated by the datestone on the facade. Designed in the Early English style, it features red brick with decorative black brick bands and window arches, along with stone copings. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has crest tiles.

The church has a symmetrical facade facing the street to the north, with a parapet gable end that includes three trefoil-headed lancets and a large three-light window above. At the apex of the gable is a small quarterfoil circular window. At basement level, behind spearhead iron railings, there are two small-paned timber windows with two-centre arched heads. The flanking porches each have parapet gables and a pair of moulded doorways with plank doors featuring ornate strap hinges. Above each pair of doorways is a trefoil circular window. Low walls curve back from the sides of each porch and ramp down into the churchyard. Behind each porch, there is a short transept with a hipped roof.

The east and west sides of the church each have three two-light windows, with three-light small-paned timber windows below them that have shallow-pointed relieving arches, providing light to the basement. Each transept features a single lancet window at each level. To the south, a polygonal apse protrudes from the gable end, which has a lower small-paned window and a small two-centre arched upper window, both made of timber.

Inside, the church has a boarded ceiling with partly-exposed roof trusses and a gallery at the north end supported by two cast-iron columns. Opposite the gallery, there is a large arched opening leading to the apse. Each transept contains stairs to the gallery and basement, with an arched doorway leading into the main internal space. The interior retains original benches and a late 19th-century pulpit, all made of pitch pine. It is said that the church was built by the town's linen merchants, who used the basement for their meetings.