United Reform Church And Former Manse, With Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. Church, manse. 1 related planning application.
United Reform Church And Former Manse, With Railings
- WRENN ID
- grim-gable-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church, manse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reform Church and former manse, along with railings, was built in 1860. The structure is made of rubble with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof and wrought-iron railings. The single-storey chapel is accompanied by a two-storey manse on the left and a two-storey porch at the center of the chapel. The building has rusticated quoins throughout, including on the porch.
The chapel has two round-arched sash windows with glazing bars, set in ashlar surrounds with small keystones. The ashlar copings are prominent, and there is an end stack on the left side. The porch features hammer-dressed ashlar dressings with smooth margins, a round-arched doorway with a quoined and voussoired surround, and a board door. A benchmark is located to the left, and above the doorway is a sundial dated 1840 within a square surround. On the first floor, there is a round-arched opening in an ashlar surround with a small keystone, which contains a two-pane window and a panel inscribed "KELD CHAPEL REBUILT 1860." The gable is coped, and a round-arched bellcote sits at the apex. There is also a single-storey reading-desk projection on the right return.
Inside the chapel, there is a panelled west gallery supported by two cast-iron columns. A semicircular arch connects the chapel to the reading-desk recess. The interior features a carved minister's seat and a decorative cast-iron front to the dais, along with original pews. Memorial wall slabs commemorate Mr. Edmund Alderson Knowles of Low Row, who died in 1835 and provided an endowment for the chapel's ministers, and Rev. Edward Stillman, who died in 1837 and served as the chapel's minister.
The manse is constructed of coursed rubble and has two first-floor windows. A board door is located to the right, set in a round-arched ashlar surround with a small keystone. The manse also features sash windows in ashlar surrounds, shaped kneelers, and ashlar coping on the left. There are stacks at the left end and center of the manse.
In front of the entire building, there is a low rubble wall topped with saddleback ashlar coping, which supports short railings with spear finials. The gate to the manse is positioned between monolithic ashlar gate-piers with pointed caps, while the gates to the chapel porch are located between larger monolithic ashlar gate-piers with pyramidal caps. This building replaced the Independent Chapel that was constructed in 1789.
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