Listed Building: UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (4.7.10)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 410957
Date assigned 12 October 1988
Date last amended

Description

Congregational church, now United Reformed Church. Designed 1905 by G. Baines & Son of London. Gothic free style. Brick with slate gabled and lean-to roofs. Ashlar dressings and bands, chamfered plinth, shaped coped gables with shaped kneelers. Large curved iron gutter brackets. Single external corner stack. Windows are mainly untraceried double and triple ogee lancets with square headed reveals. Nave and chancel under continuous roof, south west tower, bell tower, north and south transepts, vestries. Nave west end has central doors with traceried overlight and moulded opening with segmental head and crocketed finial. Flanked by single panelled buttresses with shaped heads. Beyond single lights. Above, traceried 5 light ogee lancet with hood mould. Above again, 3 slit lights. Nave has on each side central panelled buttress and 2 double lancets. Above, 3 smaller lancets. Battered tower, 3 stages, has 2 moulded string courses and lintel bands, plain bands, billeted cornice with 4 gargoyles, shaped pinnacled parapet. First stage has to south, datestone, 1905. Above it, double lancet. To west, door with moulded segmental head, and above a double lancet. Second stage has a slit light on 3 sides. Third stage has 4 diagonal buttresses and on each side, double ogee louvred lancet. Above again, octagonal leaded spire. Battered square bell tower has string courses and bands similar to tower. 4 diagonal buttresses with pinnacles. To west, single blank lancet and above, single louvred opening. Above, iron finial. South transept gable has to left, door and to right, 2 lancets. Above, 4 light traceried lancet. North transept has similar but simpler tracery. North west stair tower, 2 storeys, has panelled diagonal buttress and hipped roof with finial. West side has doorway with moulded segmental head. Above, double lancet. North side has a lancet and above, double lancet. East end has blank gable with door flanked by single casements. To left, vestry with casement and door. To right, door and casement. South side has a casement. Nave windows have all patterned stained glass. West end has glazed screen flanked by single doors. 4 clustered iron piers supporting straight side and curved rear galleries with panel traceried fronts. Galleries have arcade posts with arch braces, those to west with foliate corbels. Principal rafter roof with false hammer beams with arch braces and knee brackets. East end has moulded four centred arch with corbels and shaft imposts. Traceried panelled gallery with sloped ends. Above, organ in panelled case. Entrance hall has 2 dogleg concrete stairs with iron balusters and vase newels. Fittings include semi-circular dais with canted traceried pulpit with flanking stairs. Curved benches with pierced and shaped ends. Vestry contains re-set datestone inscribed 'Erected AD MDCCXLIII Ebenezer. Enlarged AD MDCCCXV'. Memorials include re-set marble and slate tablets, 1849 and 1924. Tablet and brass, 1921 and 1917. Brass war memorial shield c.1920. (NCC/js)

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Grid reference Centred SK 49520 58658 (29m by 27m)
Map sheet SK45NE
District Ashfield
Civil Parish Sutton in Ashfield, Ashfield

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Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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