United Reformed Church

TIVERTON

SS9512 ST PETER STREET, Tiverton 848-1/6/318 United Reformed Church 12/02/52 (Formerly Listed as: ST PETER'S STREET (West side) Congregational Church)

GV II

United Reformed Church (formerly Congregational). 1831 (Pevsner), with later C19 features inside, foundation date of chapel on site 1660 (datestone). Grey limestone ashlar; slate roof concealed behind parapet. STYLE: described as "cheerfully eclectic" by Pevsner. PLAN: end on to the street, immediately north of the memorial rooms (separately listed). Rectangular galleried plan. EXTERIOR: 3-bay, the outer bays slightly broken forward, shallow pedimented gable over the central bay with a large square-on-plan finial. String course below upper tier of windows and coved cornice to outer bays below plain coped parapet with modillion frieze below centre bay and short sections of horizontal modillion frieze in outer bays. Central round-headed doorway with hoodmould with label stops; steps up to sliding doors with vertical sunk panels and blind timber arched fanlight with Gothick detail. The doorway was lit by a good late C19 lamp at the apex on a fancy, stout, scrolled cast-iron bracket. Ground-floor windows have round-headed recessed arches with hoodmoulds to the inner order, windows glazed with 6-pane fixed lights. Tall, round-headed gallery windows in the outer bays with hoodmoulds. Fixed windows with glazing bars and a roundel in the head. Similar triple window in the centre bay with continuous hoodmould. Rear elevation has hipped roof and one very tall round-headed louvred opening. INTERIOR: partially inspected. C19 gallery on columns with cast-iron balustrade; stout late C19 benches with shaped ends; late C19 or early C20 organ case. This building forms a good C19 grey limestone group with the Memorial Rooms and No.2 St Peter Street (qqv) to the south. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 807).

Listing NGR: SS9537412568