Description

NEWTON ABBOT

SX8671 QUEEN STREET
1012-1/9/112 (South side)
22/03/83 Church House
(Formerly Listed as:
QUEEN STREET
(South side)
United Reformed Church)

GV II

Church, now offices. 1875, converted into offices 1976.
Squared Devon limestone, slate roof. Gothic Revival Decorated
style. Rectangular plan with a forward entrance tower flanked
by lower and narrower wings.
EXTERIOR: west tower in 3 stages: decorative quatrefoil
oxidized copper bands and quoins to an octagonal slate spire;
pierced parapet with diagonally-set finials to corners and
sides; machicolation over 3-light louvred pointed-arched
belfry openings, with loopholes below; gabled clasping
buttresses flank 3-light traceried windows; a gabled
pointed-arched doorcase has a quatrefoil to the tympanum.
The flanking wings have 2-light windows and weathered corner
buttresses and porches in returns with pointed arches and
2-light cusped-headed windows above. 5-bay returns with
similar 2-light windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(BoE: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 587).

Listing NGR: SX8624271323

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548275

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Recommended Books

• 
  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)