Description

SK 45 NE SUTTON IN ASHFIELD HIGH PAVEMENT
(north side)
3/43 United Reformed
Church
II
Congregational church, now United Reformed Church. Designed 1905
by G. Baines & Son of London. Gothic free style. Brick with
slate gabled and lean-to roofs. Ashlar dressings and bands,
chamfered plinth, shaped coped gables with shaped kneelers.
Large curved iron gutter brackets. Single external corner stack.
Windows are mainly untraceried double and triple ogee lancets
with square headed reveals. Nave and chancel under continuous
roof, south west tower, bell tower, north and south transepts,
vestries. Nave west end has central doors with traceried
overlight and moulded opening with segmental head and crocketed
finial. Flanked by single panelled buttresses with shaped heads.
Beyond single lights. Above, traceried 5 light ogee lancet with
hood mould. Above again, 3 slit lights. Nave has on each side
central panelled buttress and 2 double lancets. Above, 3 smaller
lancets. Battered tower, 3 stages, has 2 moulded string courses
and lintel bands, plain bands, billeted cornice with 4 gargoyles,
shaped pinnacled parapet. First stage has to south, datestone,
1905. Above it, double lancet. To west, door with moulded
segmental head, and above a double lancet. Second stage has a
slit light on 3 sides. Third stage has 4 diagonal buttresses and
on each side, double ogee louvred lancet. Above again, octagonal
leaded spire. Battered square bell tower has string courses and
bands similar to tower. 4 diagonal buttresses with pinnacles.
To west, single blank lancet and above, single louvred opening.
Above, iron finial. South transept gable has to left, door and
to right, 2 lancets. Above, 4 light traceried lancet. North
transept has similar but simpler tracery. North west stair
tower, 2 storeys, has panelled diagonal buttress and hipped roof
with finial. West side has doorway with moulded segmental head.
Above, double lancet. North side has a lancet and above, double
lancet. East end has blank gable with door flanked by single
casements. To left, vestry with casement and door. To right,
door and casement. South side has a casement. Nave windows have
all patterned stained glass. West end has glazed screen flanked
by single doors. 4 clustered iron piers supporting straight side
and curved rear galleries with panel traceried fronts. Galleries
have arcade posts with arch braces, those to west with foliate
corbels. Principal rafter roof with false hammer beams with arch
braces and knee brackets. East end has moulded four centred arch
with corbels and shaft imposts. Traceried panelled gallery with
sloped ends. Above, organ in panelled case. Entrance hall has 2
dogleg concrete stairs with iron balusters and vase newels.
Fittings include semi-circular dais with canted traceried pulpit
with flanking stairs. Curved benches with pierced and shaped
ends. Vestry contains re-set datestone inscribed 'Erected AD
MDCCXLIII Ebenezer. Enlarged AD MDCCCXV'. Memorials include re-
set marble and slate tablets, 1849 and 1924. Tablet and brass,
1921 and 1917. Brass war memorial shield c.1920.

Listing NGR: SK4952458658

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 16 August 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Sutton-in-Ashfield United Reformed Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26516353

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