United Reform Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1987. Church.
United Reform Church
- WRENN ID
- seventh-step-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- United Reform Church, Martock
- OS grid reference
- ST 457 182
- Coordinates
- 50.96095, -2.77389
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The United Reform Church in Bower Hinton is an Independent Church that was established by 1837 and enlarged between 1887 and 1893. It is constructed from Ham stone ashlar and features a hipped plain clay tile roof over stone slate base courses. The building is single-storey with three bays and has some additions. It has a plinth and three-light pointed arched windows with mullions and transoms, but no tracery. On the south gable, there is a three-light semi-circular arched window above a later 19th-century porch, which has a pair of boarded doors set in a pointed archway of non-traditional style. This is topped by a quatrefoil panel set in the coped west gable, which has an obelisk finial. The south wall includes two small lancets. There is an additional extension on the north gable with a Welsh slate roof, featuring a triple lancet in the west wall above a single lancet in a lower lean-to that also has a pointed-arched doorway. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
United Reform Church receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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