City United Reformed Church

City United Reformed Church

City United Reformed Church is a Grade II*-listed building located in Windsor Place, Cardiff. Originally constructed in 1866, it was listed in 1975.[1]

The church was designed in a Neogothic style by the Scottish architect Frederick Thomas Pilkington, and originally belonged to the Presbyterian denomination.[1] The same architect was also responsible for Barclay Viewforth Church in Edinburgh. Pilkington made a point of using local materials and created a gabled roof with an octagonal spire. In 1893, the west front was redesigned by another architect, E. M. Bruce Vaughan, who built a new porch. After a fire in 1910, Vaughan added a new hammerbeam roof.[2]

In 1972, when the United Reformed Church was created by a merger of the Congregational Church in England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England, City URC became part of the Province of Wales within the new denomination.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "City United Reformed Church, Castle". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  2. ↑ John Newman; Stephen R. Hughes; Anthony Ward (1995). Glamorgan: (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan). Penguin Books. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-14-071056-4.
  3. ↑ "United Reformed Church (Province of Wales) Records". Archives Wales – National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 July 2016.

Coordinates: 51°29′02″N 3°10′22″W / 51.4839°N 3.1729°W / 51.4839; -3.1729

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