Chingford United Reformed Church

The original Congregational church in Chingford was founded in 1888, initially meeting at a café in Station Road called the Victoria Coffee Palace. A plot of land was bought by the church in 1889 and a temporary corrugated iron building, or "tin tabernacle" was erected on the site. In 1890, a church hall was opened, named Spicer Hall after James Spicer, a benefactor.^[2] The architect of the hall was Rowland Plumbe; it was eventually sold by the church and converted into apartments in 2004.^[3] In 1910, the new church was constructed; the architects were John Diggle Mould and his younger brother Samuel Joseph Mould,^[1] who were Primitive Methodists from Manchester that specialised in Nonconformist church buildings.^[4]

Of red brick with stone banding, the west frontage facing Buxton Road has a triple entrance under a large Perpendicular Gothic window, leaded in the Art Nouveau style. A tower with pinnacles and a copper clad spire stands on the right of the front. Internally, a foyer below a gallery gives entry to a square nave, made octagonal by stone arches in the corners. A stone screen under a large arch divide the nave from a polygonal sanctuary.^[3]

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