City United Reformed Church is a
Grade II*-listed building located in Windsor Place,
Cardiff
Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...
. Originally constructed in 1866, it was listed in 1975.
The church was designed in a
Neogothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
style by the Scottish architect
Frederick Thomas Pilkington
Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832-1898), pupil of his father, was a "Rogue" British architect, practising in the Victorian architecture, Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, High Gothic revival style. He designed mostly churches and instituti ...
, and originally belonged to the Presbyterian denomination.
The same architect was also responsible for
Barclay Viewforth Church
Barclay Viewforth Church is a parish church of the Church of Scotland in the Presbytery of Edinburgh.
History
Located at the border between the Bruntsfield and Tollcross areas of the city at the junction of Barclay Place and Wright's Houses ...
in
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
. 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
A hammerbeam roof is a decorative, open timber roof truss typical of English Gothic architecture and has been called "...the most spectacular endeavour of the English Medieval carpenter". They are traditionally timber framed, using short beams pr ...
roof.
In 1972, when the
United Reformed Church
The United Reformed Church (URC) is a Protestant Christian church in the United Kingdom. As of 2022 it has approximately 40,000 members in 1,284 congregations with 334 stipendiary ministers.
Origins and history
The United Reformed Church resulte ...
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.
References
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Grade II* listed churches in Cardiff
Churches completed in 1866
United Reformed churches in Wales
19th-century churches in the United Kingdom