Description

DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE CLAYPATH
NZ 2742 NE (North side)

United Reformed Church
10/58 hall and offices (formerly
30.4.71 listed as Claypath Chapel)

GV II

Presbyterian church, later successively Independent and Congregational. 1751.
Dark red brick with sandstone plinth and rendered ashlar dressings: roof of
concrete tiles. 2 storeys, 2 bays and small one-storey porch at left to basement.
Wide steps up to renewed central door, flanked by round-headed sashes with glazing
bars in round brick arches and with projecting stone sills. Smaller windows above
of same type and small rectangular perforated iron ventilator in gable peak. Left
return has 3 large round-headed windows of same type. Interior shows ground floor
offices and vestry with some fielded panelling; beaded panelling in entrance hall;
front stair has turned newel with urn-shaped finial, grip handrail, fat square
balusters on first flight; rear spiral stair by St. Pancras Ironwork Co., London,
in Gothic-style cast iron. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NZ2756742703

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26413904

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)