Zion United Reformed Church, Cottingham
Church in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
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The Zion United Reformed Church is a historic church in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England.
The church was built in 1819 to a design by Appleton Bennison,[1] for the Presbyterian Church of England.[2] An organ was installed in 1896, but the building is otherwise unaltered.[3] Historic England describes it as the "best preserved early 19th-century chapel" in the East Riding,[3] while Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "plain and honest and peaceful".[1] The building was grade II* listed in 1967.[3] In 1972, the Presbyterian Church became part of the United Reformed Church, which continues to worship in the building.[2]
The church is built of white brick on a plinth, with stone dressings, a sill band, a floor band, a moulded cornice, a low pediment containing a dated and inscribed circular tablet, and a slate roof. It has two storeys and is three bays wide, withd flanking lower wings with ramped coped parapets. On each wing is a round-arched doorway and a fanlight with radial glazing. The windows are sashes with round-arched heads and radial glazing in round-arched recesses. Inside, it has a balcony on three sides, supported by cast iron columns. It has box pews, and there are staircases in the wings.[1][3]
