Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
United Reformed Church
Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 9 May 1988
- Community
- Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.51371, -3.31550
- Cadw reference
- 8157
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1637 "Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Prominently sited on the corner of Park Street with New Church Street.
History
1876, built as a Congregational Chapel.
Exterior
Decorated Gothic style. Bull nosed snecked masonry with freestone dressings. 3 window gabled front. Steep slate roofs, decorative bands to S side. Raking gable parapets on kneelers, crocket finial to apex over cusped vent. Polygonal spirelets on stepped buttresses flank tall central 5 light window. Pointed arch, good geometric cusped tracery. Sill band. Similar smaller 2 light window to left giving aisled effect. That to right truncated by single gabled porch. Pointed arch to doorway. Decorated iron straps to double doors. 6 bayside elevations. Stepped buttresses flanking 2 light traceried windows to S side. Sill band. Corbelled eaves. Entrance porch with stair turret to right on N side. Porch similar to front with cusped plate tracery window to side. Polygonal stair turret, angular hipped decorative slate roof with finial. Freestone band at eaves with paired quatrefoils. Slit-like lancet windows. Cusped lancet to left, other 4 bays as S side.
Vent to apex at rear with cusped vent above polygonal organ chamber with angular hipped roof. Vestries at right angles; gabled roofs. 2 light traceried windows to gable ends advanced beyond main side elevations. Gabled dormer over doorway to centre flanked by 2 light cusped plate tracery windows. Buttresses.
Good decorative ironwork railings on stepped stone base to Park St and New Church St elevations.
Nearby in the register
- Church Schoolroom, including perimeter railingsEducationunder 1 mi
- Market HallCommercialunder 1 mi
- Newtown Baptist Church including perimeter railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- BJ's ElectricalCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.