OS grid reference SJ640658 Denomination United Reformed Opened 1865 Designated as world heritage site 12 March 1986 Heritage designation Listed building | Country England Previous denomination Congregational Architectural type Church Groundbreaking 1864 Architect John Douglas | |
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Location Swanlow Lane, Over,
Winsford, Cheshire Former name(s) Over Congregational Chapel Similar Zion Chapel - Chester, St Nicholas' Chapel, St John the Evangelist's Church, St Luke's Church - Dunham, St Mary's and St Michael's | ||
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. It is a Grade II listed building,
The church was the second to be designed by John Douglas. 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". The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called it "very ugly".
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