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
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 November 1975
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former United Reformed Church, High Street, Ashwick
- OS grid reference
- ST 630 472
- Coordinates
- 51.22331, -2.53064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former United Reformed Church, built in 1873 for John Spencer of Oakhill Brewery, is a church constructed from rough faced sandstone rubble with dressed quoins and slate roofs featuring crested ridges. It is designed in a free geometric style and has a cruciform shape with angled transept ends and an apsed chancel. The church includes a belfry porch linked to the north aisle and a 3-bay aisled nave with clerestory windows. Notable architectural features include plate tracery, a west window with two pairs of cusped lancets and foliated occuli, and an arcaded 5-light window set in an ovolo dado below. The doorway is designed in a style reminiscent of around 1300, featuring two orders. The tower is divided into two stages and has two pairs of lights for the ringing chamber, an elaborate roof in two stages, a separate clock storey, and an upper leaded spirlet with squat corner pinnacles. Inside, the principal feature is the galleried first floor of the chancel, which has a vestry below. This church was formerly known as Oakhill Congregational Church and is nicknamed the "Little Cathedral."
Local climate
Former United Reformed Church receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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