Throop United Reformed Church and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Church, Sunday School.
Throop United Reformed Church and Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- broken-gutter-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth East MP: Tom Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Church, Sunday School
- Address
- Throop United Reformed Church and Sunday School, Muscliff Lane, Throop and Holdenhurst
- OS grid reference
- SZ 107 959
- Coordinates
- 50.76328, -1.84947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Throop United Reformed Church and Sunday School, built in 1819 and originally a Congregational church, features a stucco front in the Regency Gothic style. It has three windows with Y-tracery above a Victorian lean-to narthex that includes a gabled doorway. There is a single-storey annexe with a doorway and another Y-tracery window. The sides of the building have two tiers of uniform Y-tracery windows made of whitewashed brick, with Y-timber bars and horizontal iron bars.
Attached at the rear and at right angles is the Sunday School, built in 1830 and rebuilt and enlarged in 1860, constructed in red brick with an Italian-medieval style. It has a pedimental gable with a notched brick outline, walls featuring vitrified headers, and flank windows that are round-arched and arranged in pairs, separated by pilaster strips. The annexe at right angles includes a round-arched pair of windows and a 'porthole' window in the gable.
The interior of the chapel remains unspoilt, with pale blue walls, deeply splayed windows, a thin cornice, and deep coving on the ceiling outlined by roll-moulding. The west gallery features a panelled front with pilasters and a coved cornice supported by two chamfered columns. The east wall has a tripartite panel with an arched centre, likely originally intended for the Creed and Commandments. The pews are Victorian and made of pitchpine.
Local climate
Throop United Reformed Church and Sunday School receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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