United Reformed Church

The United Reformed Church, built in 1878 by T. Lewis Banks, is a church constructed from ham stone ashlar with some polychromy and features a Welsh slate roof adorned with ornamental clay ridge tiles between coped gables. It is designed in a Romanesque style and appears to be two-storeys tall. The street facade has an end gable that stands out from two short side wings, creating an effective three-bay layout. The central doorway projects and has a semi-circular recessed arch made up of three orders, topped with a corbelled gable. On either side of the doorway are semi-circular headed windows and buttresses that resemble pilasters. Above this, there is a five-window arcade with semi-circular arches supported by pink marble columns, and the gable is corbelled with a datestone from 1878.

The lower side wings feature semi-circular headed doorways and long, thin semi-circular headed windows above. The south return elevation is constructed from random local stone with ashlar dressings and consists of six bays, with shouldered flat-arch windows on the ground floor and semi-circular arched windows above. The 1901 rooms and the buildings at the rear clad in asbestos cement sheeting are not of interest. Inside, there is an extended gallery at the west end, beneath which are 20th-century meeting rooms, and a three-bay double colonnade with Byzantine caps that was inserted in 1923. The fittings date back to 1878. This church replaces an earlier chapel built in 1792, which was set back from the road between nos 11 and 15.