Former United Reform Church is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1988. Church. 1 related planning application.
Former United Reform Church
- WRENN ID
- stony-buttress-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former United Reform Church, Cross Street, Barnstaple, EX31 1BD
- OS grid reference
- SS 557 331
- Coordinates
- 51.07966, -4.06057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former United Reform Church is a Congregational church built in 1870 by RD Gould and Son, designed in the Middle Pointed Style. It is constructed from squared slatestone rubble with limestone and local stone detailing, and the rear wall is partly made of red brick. The building features slated roofs with red crested ridge tiles.
The façade has a five-window range in two stages, with a focus on the left-hand bay. The ground storey includes three small segmental-headed, traceried windows, flanked by doorways at either end. The larger left-hand doorway has a moulded, enriched two-centred arch, which is enclosed within a steeply-pitched, gabled hood supported by short columns resting on moulded imposts. The hood is decorated with crockets and a finial. The doorway is divided by a pillar, which supports an angel holding a scroll inscribed with "Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts."
The upper storey features tall, pointed traceried windows, each set under a gable. The left-hand window has four lights, while the others have two lights, and all four windows are topped with finials on the gables above them. The rear wall also contains traceried windows. The interior has been altered.
Local climate
Former United Reform Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 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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