United Reform Church, Hall and Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Church.
United Reform Church, Hall and Manse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-truss-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Constituency
- Farnham and Bordon MP: Gregory Stafford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- United Reform Church, Hall and Manse, Tower Road, Haslemere
- OS grid reference
- SU 885 355
- Coordinates
- 51.11241, -0.73677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reformed Church, Hall, and Manse in Hindhead was built in 1899 as a gift from John Grover, a local builder who worked extensively with architect R. Norman Shaw. The church features a one-storey chapel with three windows on the right and a blank bay on the left of a large porch. It is constructed of dressed random masonry with freestone quoins and has a steeply pitched swept tiled roof topped with a bell turret and a tall shingled spirelet. The gable ends have stone-coped lunettes. The chapel includes three-light leaded casements and a peaked segmental porch coping. Inside, the space is simply designed with a well-proportioned interior supported by moulded ties on long corbels, a moulded wood cornice, and twin stone arches leading to the organ and vestry. Original oak benches are fitted with cushions covered in tapestry designed by W.R. Lethaby.
Adjacent to the church is a smaller hall, which serves as a one-storey link to the Manse. Although the hall was not built until 1905, it was designed in 1899 and is part of the original concept. The Manse has two storeys under a gable on the right and one storey with an attic on the left, featuring similar stonework to the church. It has a tall red-tiled roof with large dormers and prominent chimneys, along with three, four, and five-light casements, some of which have transoms. Inside the church, there is a memorial plaque dedicated to John Grover, the benefactor who built New Scotland Yard.
Local climate
United Reform Church, Hall and Manse receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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