United Free Church, Main Street, Swinton

The United Free Church, now a village hall, was built in the Gothic style and begun in 1859, opening in 1860. It was later converted to a church hall in 1932. The building is rectangular, with a five-bay nave, and a four-stage tower to the south that has an incomplete spire. A gabled porch is set back, and a single-story vestry is located at the rear.

The church is constructed from squared and snecked tooled cream sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings. The base is stepped out at the front, with a raised base course on some sides, a moulded cill course, and a sandstone eaves course. Ashlar quoins are present, along with long and short surrounds to chamfered openings, some trefoil-headed and pointed-arched. Mullions define the bipartites, and the windows have chamfered cills. An out-of-character flat-roofed toilet block is adjoined to the front.

The southeast elevation presents the nave with seven regularly spaced, trefoil-headed windows, and a central traceried window which has been bricked up. The tower is recessed to the left, featuring a narrow opening at the second stage, chamfered angles with surmounting gablets, a clock face at the third stage, a pointed-arched window at the fourth stage, and a finialed gable. The northwest elevation displays a blocked rose window centered in the nave and a trefoil opening above. The northeast elevation has a gabled bipartite window and regularly spaced bipartite windows. The southwest elevation shows the tower as previously described, a gabled porch with a pointed-arched entrance and boarded timber door, and the single-story vestry.

The church has replacement glazing in the nave, with most other openings blocked and missing glazing. The roof is grey slate, featuring fishscale banding in part, with gabletted skewputts and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Internally, the whitewashed sandstone vestibule has boarded timber doors with decorative iron hinges. The nave entrance has boarded timber doors and engaged columns with an architraved hoodmould. The nave has a boarded timber floor and dado, and a false ceiling with original brackets and springers. Chamfered timber columns support a timber-panelled balcony at first floor level, partially infilled at ground level with a central opening. A stage is located to the north. The vestry has a boarded timber door and a small fireplace.

The site is enclosed by a coped cream sandstone boundary wall with pyramidal-capped, square-plan piers at the outer left and right.