Building record 1223/6/1 - United Reform Church, Potterspury

Congregational 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.

{1} 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. 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 Gothic style.

{4} Photo and plan;

{6} Undated photo, also photo dated 29.10.1993;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 15/96 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), F11 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Pevsner N.; Cherry B., 1973, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.377 (unchecked) (Series). SNN1320.

<4> The Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-Houses: Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire, p. 146 (Report). SNN2902.

<5> Coleman, T, 1853, Memorials of the Independent Churches of Northamptonshire, p. 275-90 (Book). SNN54569.

<6> Photographs of buildings in Potterspury (Photographs). SNN112957.

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