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United Reformed Church, Including Schoolrooms, Front Wall And Gates 383543

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.514777 50.392677,-3.515014 50.392619,-3.514992...
• entry-date: 1975-01-10
• listed-building: 1195171
• name: United Reformed Church, Including Schoolrooms, Front Wall And Gates
• notes: Congregational chapel. 1843-5, restored and altered 1872 and 1908. Schoolrooms probably a mid/late C19 addition. Stone rubble; front of chapel and upper storey of schoolrooms rendered. Slated roofs; schoolrooms hipped to front. Chapel lies at right-angles to street with front lobby flanked by staircases. Original or near-original galleries on 3 sides, later extended behind the pulpit. Behind this is a recess with organ, probably added in 1908. Set forward to right, and linked to the chapel by a lobby, are the schoolrooms. Chapel has a gabled, projecting centre with pointed-arched doorway having a hoodmould. Above it a large round window, also with hoodmould, filled with quatrefoiled tracery. Over it is a very small quatrefoiled window. Flanking the centrepiece are 2 pointed-arched doorways with matching single-light windows above them. The corners are splayed and each contain a similar pointed-arched window. Prominent eaves-cornice on large shaped brackets, across the whole front. Schoolrooms 2-storeyed on a high battered plinth decorated with a single course of red bricks. Each storey has 3 close-set pointed-arched windows at the front, those in ground storey with arches of alternating red and cream brick. A single matching window in left side wall of ground storey. Rounded stone sill-band in ground storey; similar band just above window heads. The buildings stand on a raised terrace with a small garden, also raised, in front of it. Along the street frontage is a rendered retaining-wall surmounted by a simple iron railing (replaced after World War II). In the centre are 2 square gate piers with elaborately scrolled iron gates (probably original). Matching pier at each end of frontage with intermediate pier to right of gates. There was originally a further railing at rear of garden. INTERIOR: galleries are carried on quatrefoil-section iron columns; gallery fronts panelled with diagonal planking; handrail raised on scrolled iron brackets. The pointed-arched side-windows ignore the galleries, as if these were an afterthought. In the upper end at either side, are 2 similar windows, now painted over, with small-paned glazing, the heads with pointed, intersecting arches. Panelled pulpit with open quatrefoils at the top; steps up at either side with patterned iron railings. Organ recess has pointed arch in alternating red and yellow brick. Tie-beam roof-trusses infilled with arcades of 4-centred arches. Schoolrooms plain with row of simple iron columns down centre of ground storey. (Gregory C: Brixham in Devonia: Totnes: 1896-: 52; Kelly's Directories: Directory of Devonshire: 1910-: 106; Kelly's Directories: Directory of Devonshire: 1923-: 107). Listing NGR: SX9241855843
• reference: 383543
• start-date: 1975-01-10