United Reformed Church Terling, England

Listed Building Data

United Reformed Church has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1123410
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
13 March 1986
Name
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
Location
UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, CHURCH GREEN
Parish
Terling
District
Braintree
County
Essex
Grid Reference
TL 77249 14867
Easting
577249.0000
Northing
214867.0000

Listed Building Description

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TL 7714 TERLING CHURCH GREEN (north-west side)

11/114 United Reformed Church

GV II*

Congregational church. 1752-3, altered in C19. Red brick in Flemish bond with dressings of blue brick, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Rectangular plan facing SE, with early C19 vestry to rear. One storey, but formerly with a gallery, so externally of 2 storeys. 3-window range of cross windows, those on the ground floor with segmental arches of red brick, those in the upper range with flat heads of alternate red and blue bricks. Double 6-panel doors standing forward in shallow gabled porch with flat brick arch and ball finial, added 1895. Recessed stone tablet over door inscribed 'Bvilded circa 1700, restored 1895' (the former date is erroneous). String course at first floor level. Plaster coving below eaves. Hipped roof. Inscription low in right return, 'T. Brown 1752' is probably by the master mason. In the rear elevation there are 2 altered windows at half-height, of 7 lights with semi-circular heads. The interior was originally arranged with the pulpit on the long NW wall and galleries on the other 3 sides; in 1895 the pulpit was moved to the short SW wall and the galleries removed. The windows in the SW wall were blocked. Marble tablet to the Reverend William Kemp, 1844, on SW wall.

Listing NGR: TL7724914867