Van Road United Reformed Church

Van Road United Reformed Church is a large chapel built in the Free Gothic style. It features rock-faced Newbridge sandstone with extensive Bathstone dressings, banding, and quoins. The building has a basement that includes vestries and other rooms. The gabled entrance is accessed by steep steps leading up to a central doorway, flanked by square gatepiers topped with capstones, along with iron gates and railings.

A five-light Decorated window with flowing tracery is situated above the doorway, which is adorned with elaborate hinges and set within a band of Gothic-arched cusped panelling, some of which are pierced as windows. Below this, there is a row of foundation stones. To the left, a polygonal Bathstone turret buttress can be found, while to the right, there is a tapering square-plan tower featuring clasping buttresses, a castellated parapet, and a pyramidal spire. The tower has broad five-light windows at the bell stage and windows with three cusped lights at the lower stage, along with a camber-headed doorway at ground level that has a door with elaborate strap hinges.

To the left of the front, there is a stair tower with splayed corners, a band of windows, a castellated parapet, and a hipped roof. The five-bay side elevations have windows separated by shallow buttresses, with two-light Gothic windows at chapel level and two-light square-headed windows at the basement level, along with a doorway that has an overlight. The rear of the building is cement rendered and features a shallow projection for the organ recess.

Inside, the lobby contains a decorated wood panelled and stained glass screen in the Art-Nouveau style. The interior is lofty, with narrow cast iron columns supporting a hammer-beam roof and timber arcades, along with a wood panelled ceiling. A Gothic arched recess at the south end features a painted scroll and inscription above, housing an organ with a panelled case and exposed pipes. In front of the organ is a polygonal wooden pulpit in Gothic style, complete with blind arches and stalls on either side. The rear corners on the south side have splayed timber and stained glass screens leading to the vestry and stair to the lower level. The chapel contains three banks of wooden benches and wainscot panelling, with stained glass in the windows, mainly in the Art-Nouveau style, particularly in the traceried heads. The basement includes vestries and offices.