City United Reformed | |
Coordinates: | 51.4839°N -3.1729°W |
Denomination: | United Reformed |
Previous Denomination: | Presbyterian |
Founded Date: | 1864 |
Status: | Active |
Heritage Designation: | Grade II* |
Designated Date: | 19 May 1975 |
Architect: | F.T. Pilkington |
Style: | Neogothic |
Completed Date: | 1866 |
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]