City United Reformed Church

The City United Reformed Church is a Grade II* listed building designed in the Free Gothic style. It is constructed from pennant stone with bathstone ashlar dressings and features pink Radyr stone in the voussoirs. The slate roofs are laid in diminishing courses, and the transeptal wings to the north and south have shallow curves. The west end is gabled and supported by stepped buttresses, featuring an unusual plate tracery window. This window is flanked by piers and enclosed in a wide trefoil head, consisting of four columned trefoil ogee lights surmounted by plate tracery with a sexfoil and rope moulding, surrounded by a band of multi-foils, with decorated bathstone keystones in Radyr stone voussoirs. Below the window, there is an arcade of two-centred arches above a ground-level plinth, with quatrefoil windows above. To the left, there is a modern entrance block, and to the right, in the angle with the south porch, there are two Gothic windows leading to the vestry, which features an arcaded parapet. The south side has a two-storey porch with a two-light window on the upper floor and a doorway with Radyr stone voussoirs, deep cusping, and flanking shafts with foliated capitals. The south tower is topped by an octagonal spire, which has four large louvered openings with Y-tracery and steep gables attached to its base, along with four small gablets at half-height on alternate sides of the spire. There is also a polygonal stair in the southwest corner. The south transept contains a round-plate-traceried window with four trefoils defining a cruciform centre. A modern entrance vestibule is located to the north.

The church has a cruciform plan with the longer arm extending to the west. Inside, there is a hammerbeam roof adorned with carved stone angels and foliage corbels. Columns with foliage capitals are positioned at the angles of the crossing. The west gallery has been converted to an upper room but retains a wooden frontal, with a glass-screened vestibule below. The floor is raked and fitted with wooden pews. A polygonal stone pulpit features green marble shafts and a wooden sounding board above, with an organ situated behind it. The south transept is decorated with stained glass depicting scenes from the life of Christ that illustrate virtues, created in 1921.