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Over United Reformed Church
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Over United Reformed Church
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OS grid reference SJ640658
Location Swanlow Lane, Over,
Winsford, Cheshire
Country England
Denomination United Reformed
Previous denomination Congregational
History
Former name(s) Over Congregational Chapel
Founded 1865
Architecture
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II
Designated 12 March 1986
Architect(s) John Douglas
Architectural type Church
Groundbreaking 1865
Completed 1867
Specifications
Materials Polychromatic brick with red sandstone dressings; slate roof

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 1865 and was completed in 1867. 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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