Former United Reform Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. Church, public hall.
Former United Reform Church
- WRENN ID
- keen-vestry-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- Church, public hall
- Address
- Former United Reform Church, St James's Street, South Petherton
- OS grid reference
- ST 434 168
- Coordinates
- 50.94848, -2.80675
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former United Reform Church, built in 1863, is now used as a public hall. It is constructed from ham stone that is cut, squared, and boasted, with ashlar dressings, and features a steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with coped gables and finials. The building is single-storey and measures six bays by three bays.
The west gable front consists of three bays, supported by pairs of corner buttresses and between-bay buttresses, all topped with finials. The inner pair of buttresses has steeplets as finials. Bays one and three contain cusped lancet windows, while bay two features a five-light Decorated style traceried window without a label, which has rather thin tracery. Above this window is a trefoil louvred vent, and below is a pointed-arched doorway that is sheltered by an open pitched-roof porch. This porch has a 14th-century style outer archway with a label.
The side elevations also have corner and bay buttresses, with two-light simple-traceried windows. The window in the western bay has its sill at springing level, and above each window is a pitched-roof gabled dormer. There is a single-bay gabled extension at the east end, which is set lower than the main structure, along with a further extension against the east side that includes a cusped lancet window and a pointed-arched doorway, topped with a trefoil light.
The interior is currently not accessible as it is in the process of being converted into a public hall as of April 1986, but it appears that there has been very little alteration to the interior. Presbyterian meetings began in South Petherton around 1663, and a chapel was built on part of the present site in 1775.
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