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Latitude: 52.1534 / 52°9'12"N
Longitude: 1.0526 / 1°3'9"E
OS Eastings: 608922
OS Northings: 254960
OS Grid: TM089549
Mapcode National: GBR TLD.WFZ
Mapcode Global: VHLBC.649K
Plus Code: 9F435333+82
Entry Name: United Reformed Church
Listing Date: 9 December 1955
Last Amended: 19 May 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1253671
English Heritage Legacy ID: 436941
ID on this website: 101253671
Location: Needham Market United Reformed Church, Needham Market, Mid Suffolk, IP6
County: Suffolk
District: Mid Suffolk
Town: Mid Suffolk
Civil Parish: Needham Market
Built-Up Area: Needham Market
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Needham Market with Badley St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Church building
NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (EAST)
TM 0854
3/109 United Reformed Church
(formerly listed as
9.12.55 Congregational Chapel)
- II
Church, built as a Congregational Chapel in 1837. In the Greek Revival Style.
Gable front. Gault brick facade with dressings of limestone. The side walls
are of red brick. Slated roof. 2 storeys, 5 windows. A central portico in
antis has Ionic Columns supporting a simple cornice and a string at 1st floor
level. Above is a slight set-forward 3 bays wide. A full-width gable
pediment has moulded limestone copings and a central oeil-de-boeuf window,
stone framed. The 1st storey windows to the balcony are of strongly Vitruvian
form with a cornice above each; leaded stained glass in the Art Nouveau style.
Entrance doorways flank the portico, with broad paired flat pilasters and deep
cornice, a pair of 3-panelled doors with oblong fanlight. Further similar
doors within the portico. The facade returns for one bay only. A short
timber-framed range to rear has a steeply-pitched plaintiled roof and may be a
fragment of the earlier chapel on this site, built in 1716 and enlarged 1818.
In 1755, the Rev. Joseph Priestly, discoverer of oxygen, was appointed
Minister here.
Listing NGR: TM0892254960
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