Over United Reformed Church

Over United Reformed Church
Over United Reformed Church
Over United Reformed Church Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°11′18″N 2°32′24″W / 53.1884°N 2.5399°W
OS grid reference	SJ640658
Location	Swanlow Lane, Over, Winsford, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	United Reformed
Previous denomination	Congregational
History
Former name(s)	Over Congregational Chapel
Founded	1865
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	12 March 1986
Architect(s)	John Douglas
Architectural type	Church
Groundbreaking	1864
Completed	1865
Specifications
Materials	Polychromatic 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 1864 and was completed in 1865. 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".^[4]

See also

• List of new churches by John Douglas
• Listed buildings in Winsford

References

1. Over United Reformed Church, UK Church Directory, retrieved 13 April 2009
2. Historic England, "The Congregational Church  (Grade II) (1160821)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 25 September 2012
3. Hubbard, Edward (1991). The Work of John Douglas. London: The Victorian Society. pp. 43–44. ISBN 0-901657-16-6.
4. 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.