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WATH UPON DEARNE
MELTON HIGH STREET (north side)
United Reformed Church

II

Chapel, 1799 (Swallow, p5). Cement rendered; Welsh slate roof. Single-storey with gallery; three x four bays; addition to rear. Entrance front: ashlar plinth. Central round-arched window with glazing bars; sill blocks to moulded sill. Two flanking doorways have two steps to C20 double doors with overlights; plinth blocks to part-fluted Doric columns; triglyph friezes; mutule cornices. Band to first floor. Casements to gallery have projecting sills. Shaped wooden gutter brackets. Hipped roof. Left return: four tall, round-arched windows with projecting sills, impost band and plain archivolt.

Interior: gallery to entrance end with panelled balustrade. Impost band to side windows. Modillion cornice. Imposing reredos in the form of a Doric serliana. Pine box pews and panelled dado.

M. Swallow, 'A History of West Melton Congregational Church', undated booklet.

Listing NGR: SE4238300974

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26425738

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)