United Reformed Church

THE FOLLOWING ITEM SHALL BE ADDED:

1. TACKET STREET 1260 (north side)

TM 1644 SE 4/361A United Reformed Church

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Former Congregational Church, now United Reformed Church. 1857, designed by Frederick J. Barnes, built by John Wight, in the Gothic Revival style. Kentish rag stone with ashlar dressings, slate roofs with coped gables, kneelers and finials. Chamfered plinth, angle buttresses with set-offs. Nave and short chancel, with large south porch. South elevation has to the west a 2 storey gabled porch with attached octagonal stair towers, for spires that were never built. Central pointed archway flanked by narrower pointed archways, all with moulded arches and pillar responds, plus above flush gables with finials, and blind tracery. Central inner moulded and pointed arch doorway. Above a moulded band which continues around the stair towers, then a circular window with a moulded surround and elaborate symmetrical tracery. The flanking stair towers each have a pointed arch doorway with plain flush gable, and above 3 pointed lancets with tracery, and they are stopped by a moulded coped parapet. To the east, the nave facade has 3 very tall 2-light lancets with tracery each divided at gallery level by a pair of stone panels with blind tracery. The east gable wall has a single pointed arch 5-light window with tracery. INTERIOR has thin iron columned arcade, which supports the wooden gallery and then continues upward to support the roof. Ornately carved wooden roof. C19 wooden pulpit, pews, organ and other fittings.

Listing NGR: TM1660444447