United Reformed Church. Gateway to South of United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Church. 1 related planning application.
United Reformed Church. Gateway to South of United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- floating-ember-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Church
- Address
- United Reformed Church. Gateway to South of United Reformed Church, South Street, Dorchester, DT1 1DF
- OS grid reference
- SY 692 904
- Coordinates
- 50.71249, -2.43702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reformed Church, built between 1856 and 1857 by architects Poulton and Woodman of Reading, is a former Congregational Church located on South Street. The building is constructed of Portland rubble with ashlar dressings. It features a nave and two aisles, with the west end facing the street, separated by buttresses that have setbacks and are topped with tall pointed finials.
The south aisle slightly projects at the west end and is topped with a steep polygonal spire, which has paired ogee-arched bell openings beneath, each pair featuring its own gablet. Below the spire are two pointed lancet windows with a small amount of early English tracery, and beneath these are planked double doors with ornamental iron hinges, set in a chamfered pointed arch with a hoodmould.
The nave includes a large pointed west window with a hoodmould, consisting of five lights with a vaguely "Kentish" tracery above and a lower order of pointed tracery below. The north aisle has one pointed arch window with a hoodmould, containing two lights and Decorated tracery. Below this window are planked double doors with elaborate iron hinges, also in a pointed arch, featuring two orders of chamfers and a hoodmould.
To the right of the church is a gateway with a steep coped gable crowned by a fleur-de-lys finial, featuring a steep cusped pointed arch and very good contemporary iron gates.
Local climate
United Reformed Church. Gateway to South of United Reformed Church receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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