Over United Reformed Church

Church in Cheshire, England

53°11′18″N 2°32′24″W / 53.1884°N 2.5399°W / 53.1884; -2.5399OS grid referenceSJ640658LocationSwanlow Lane, Over,
Winsford, CheshireCountryEnglandDenominationUnited ReformedPrevious denominationCongregationalHistoryFormer name(s)Over Congregational ChapelFounded1865ArchitectureFunctional statusActiveHeritage designationGrade IIDesignated12 March 1986Architect(s)John DouglasArchitectural typeChurchGroundbreaking1865Completed1867SpecificationsMaterialsPolychromatic brick with red sandstone dressings; slate roof

Over United Reformed Church is in Swanlow Lane, Over, Winsford, Cheshire, England. It was built as a Congregational chapel and is now a United Reformed Church.^[1] It is a Grade II listed building,^[2]

The church was the second to be designed by John Douglas.^[3] Building began in 1865 and was completed in 1867.^[4] Its exterior is in polychromatic brick, with a slate roof and red sandstone dressings.

It is an unusual building that Douglas' biographer Edward Hubbard describes as being "experimental" and as presenting "an astonishing sight".^[3] The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called it "very ugly".^[5]

References

^ Over United Reformed Church, UK Church Directory, retrieved 13 April 2009
^ Historic England, "The Congregational Church (Grade II) (1160821)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 September 2012
^ ^a ^b Hubbard, Edward (1991). The Work of John Douglas. London: The Victorian Society. pp. 43–44. ISBN 0-901657-16-6.
^ https://winsfordurc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/History-of-OverURCVal.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
^ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Hubbard, Edward (2003) [1971]. Cheshire. The Buildings of England (revised ed.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. p. 389. ISBN 0-300-09588-0.