Listed Building: United Reform Church (1041649)

Nonconformist chapel. Dated 1780 extended 1846. Coursed limestone rubble, entrance front faced with red brick in Flemish bond with flared headers. Plain-tile roof and brick end stack to left. 2-storey, 4-window range. 3-bay chapel and 2-storey 1-window school-room extension of 1846. Pair of 6-panel doors to left of centre. That furthest left gives access to former school-room and has wood lintel and gabled hood on brackets. That to right gives access to chapel and has pilastered wood surround. Plain frieze and cornice/hood. 2-light windows to ground and 1st floors with segmental-arched heads and coloured glass margin glazing. Limestone keyblock datestone to original middle 1st floor window inscribed 1780. First floor window of school-room extension to far left has similar keyblock inscribed 1846. Storey-band and corbelled brick eaves. Interior: panelled gallery on thin wood Tuscan columns. Early/mid C18 pulpit with panelled back and pediment to central section. Early C19 organ in Gothick case. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p377)

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