Former United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1975. Church.
Former United Reformed Church
- WRENN ID
- swift-steel-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1975
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST6347 ASHWICK CP HIGH STREET (South side) 5/36 Former United Reformed Church
18.11.75
GV II
Church. 1873 for John Spencer of Oakhill Brewery. Rough faced sandstone rubble, dressed quoins, slate roofs, crested ridges. Free geometric style, cruciform with angled transept ends and apsed "chancel"; belfry porch linked to North aisle; 3-bay aisled and clerestoried nave. Plate tracery, West window having 2-pairs of cusped lancets and foliated occuli, arcaded 5-light window in ovolo dado below. Doorway in c1300 style of 2-orders. Tower in 2-stages above with 2-pairs of ringing chamber lights, elaborate roof in 2-stages, separate clock storey, upper leaded spirlet with squat corner pinnacles. Principle feature of the interior is the galleried first floor of the chancel with vestry below. Formerly Oakhill Congregational church, and nicknamed the "Little Cathedral".
Listing NGR: ST6304047258
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