United Reformed Church

Former Presbyterian church, designed in 1883 and built between 1884 and 1885 to the designs of William Wallace. It is an example of Gothic style architecture. The church is constructed of stock brick and red brick with dressings of Corsham stone, and has a steep tile roof. It is a tall, single-volume building with aisles and a lower, projecting porch. A lead-covered timber fleche rises from the roof. The gable end facing Little Green is symmetrical, featuring a pair of double lancet windows with stone tracery, set between thick buttresses that terminate in pinnacles. The single-storey entrance porch to the front has lancet arcading and central doors. The sides and rear of the church are simpler in design.

The interior is austere but well composed, featuring arcades with polished columns and Corsham stone mouldings. An organ is located at the east end, which is embellished by a four-centred arch leading into a shallow sanctuary with paired lancet windows. Stained glass is present in the aisle windows. The roof is open timbered, with iron ties.

The church is notable as a good example of a Presbyterian church in England. William Wallace also designed Presbyterian churches in Enfield and in Scotland, and extended the Newhaven Free Church in Edinburgh, working in collaboration with William Flockhart. He had a successful commercial practice, designing for the Union Bank of Scotland and for Debenham and Freebody. This church represents a worthy essay in thirteenth-century Gothic style, situated in a sensitive location within a historic group of eighteenth-century and early twentieth-century listed buildings around Richmond Green. A contemporary description in the Richmond and Twickenham Times described the architecture as thirteenth-century Gothic, and the interior as resembling a miniature cathedral.