United Reform Church is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1960. Nonconformist chapel. 1 related planning application.
United Reform Church
- WRENN ID
- inner-cobble-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1960
- Type
- Nonconformist chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reform Church, originally listed as the Congregational Church, is a Nonconformist chapel located in Potterspury. It was built in 1780 and extended in 1846. The building is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with the entrance front faced in red brick laid in Flemish bond featuring flared headers. It has a plain-tile roof and a brick end stack on the left side. The structure is two stories high and has a four-window range. The original three-bay chapel is accompanied by a two-story, one-window school-room extension from 1846.
The entrance features a pair of six-panel doors located to the left of the center. The leftmost door leads to the former school-room and is topped with a wood lintel and a gabled hood supported by brackets. The door to the right provides access to the chapel and has a pilastered wood surround, along with a plain frieze and cornice/hood. The building has two-light windows on both the ground and first floors, each with segmental-arched heads and colored glass margin glazing. A limestone keyblock datestone inscribed with "1780" is located above the original middle first-floor window, while the first-floor window of the school-room extension on the far left has a similar keyblock inscribed "1846". The building features a storey-band and corbelled brick eaves.
Inside, there is a panelled gallery supported by thin wood Tuscan columns. The church also contains an early to mid-18th century pulpit with a panelled back and a pediment on the central section, as well as an early 19th-century organ housed in a Gothick case.
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