United Reformed Church Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Lewisham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1995. Church.

United Reformed Church Sunday School

WRENN ID
hollow-cinder-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Lewisham
Constituency
Lewisham North MP: Vicky Foxcroft (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1995
Type
Church
Address
United Reformed Church Sunday School, Courthill Road
OS grid reference
TQ 381 750
Coordinates
51.45736, -0.01255
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The United Reformed Church Sunday School, built between 1880 and 1881 by George Sherrin, is a two-storey building located on Courthill Road. Constructed from ragstone and topped with a slate roof, it features a prominent central fleche spire and has an 'L' shaped plan with apses at both ends. The building is designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style.

On the Courthill Road elevation, there are mullion and transom windows, with two on the upper storey featuring gablets that break through the roof, and two on the ground floor. A large seven-light Perpendicular window is set into the gable end, accompanied by three small flat-arched windows below, which are divided by short buttresses. The central entrance is accentuated by a porch, and the building has three-sided apses at the west and south ends. The ground and upper floors have flat-arched mullion and transom windows, separated by full-height buttresses.

Inside, the church features an open double-height galleried hall with an apse. The timber roof is compartmented, and the galleries are supported by simple square columns. Open arcades on the east and west sides above the galleries feature shallow arches that spring from moulded and tapered piers with Flemish detail. The three-sided apse at the south end is panelled below the window.

Local climate

United Reformed Church Sunday School sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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