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Latitude: 52.0813 / 52°4'52"N
Longitude: 0.0163 / 0°0'58"E
OS Eastings: 538264
OS Northings: 244472
OS Grid: TL382444
Mapcode National: GBR K7C.JY0
Mapcode Global: VHHKM.7YHB
Plus Code: 9F4232J8+GG
Entry Name: Melbourn United Reformed Church
Listing Date: 22 November 1967
Last Amended: 18 October 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1127543
English Heritage Legacy ID: 52250
ID on this website: 101127543
Location: Melbourn, South Cambridgeshire, SG8
County: Cambridgeshire
District: South Cambridgeshire
Civil Parish: Melbourn
Built-Up Area: Melbourn
Traditional County: Cambridgeshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cambridgeshire
Church of England Parish: Melbourn
Church of England Diocese: Ely
Tagged with: Church building
MELBOURN ORCHARD ROAD
TL 3844
(North west side)
24/198
Melbourn United
22.11.67 Reformed Church,
(formerly listed
as Old Meeting
House)
(Congregational
Chapel)
II
Congregational meeting house. c.1716 enlarged at the south end in 1815 and
to the rear c.1830. Brick, rendered, with the 1815 front wall of amber
brickwork and some stone detail. Hipped slate roof rising to a lantern,
replaced by a polygonal cupola with a shallow domed roof covered with
copper. Two stage front elevation framed by pilasters with plain capitals
and bases. Range of three recessed, sixteen pane hung sashes at first
stage. The ground stage has a hung sash also of sixteen panes, flanked by
two pairs of six panelled double doors, each with moulded wood surround and
pediment. Inside: The later pulpit is flanked by giant engaged Doric
columns. There is a gallery to three sides carried on Doric columns of wood,
the abacus enriched with carving. The balustrade has raised and fielded
panelling and in the south end an C18 Chinese lacquered clock by Thomas
Kefford of Royston. Squire stall between the two internal porches. Wall
monuments: Mrs. Sarah Nash; members of Woodham family and Rev. William Carver
all early C19.
R.C.H.M.: Record Card 1949
V.C.H. Cambs. Vol. VIII p.81
C.F: R.C.H.M.: Record Card
G. Porter Chapple: Congregationalism in Melbourn 1694-1894
Listing NGR: TL3826444472
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