Former United Reform Church

BARNSTAPLE

SS5533SE CROSS STREET 684-1/7/110 (South side) 31/08/88 Former United Reform Church (Formerly Listed as: CROSS STREET (South side) United Reformed Church)

GV II

Congregational church. 1870. By RD Gould and Son, designed in the Middle Pointed Style'. Squared slatestone rubble with detail in limestone and local stone; rear wall partly of red brick. Slated roofs with red crested ridge tiles. 5-window range in 2 stages, with emphasis on the left-hand bay. Ground storey has 3 small segmental-headed, traceried windows flanked by a doorway at either end. Larger, left-hand doorway has moulded, enriched 2-centred arch enclosed within a steeply-pitched, gabled hood springing from short columns, which in turn rest on moulded imposts; the hood is decorated with crockets and a finial. The doorway is subdivided by a pillar, upon which sits an angel bearing a scroll inscribedHoly, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts'. Upper storey has tall, pointed traceried windows, each one set under a gable. Left-hand window is of 4 lights, the remainder 2 lights, these 4 windows also have finials on the gables above them. Rear wall also contains traceried windows. INTERIOR: altered. (Gardiner WF: Barnstaple, 1837-1897: 1897-: 99).

Listing NGR: SS5575933169