United Reformed Church
United Reformed Church, Kingston upon Thames:
award winning extension and improvements
Key Facts:
Townscape Design Award
Grade II listed building
New lift tower
New conference room with
latest audiovisual equipment
The United Reformed Church in Kingston is a nineteenth century landmark building. It was extended in the 1970′s to provide a wide range of rooms which have been intensively used by the community since then.
Archadia were commissioned to develop a design for a new entrance and lift tower. The brief was to give the community facilities a greater street presence as well as to provide access to the upper floor for all, including wheelchair users.
The entire building complex is Grade II listed and a sensitive approach was required to ensure that the new additions blended sympathetically into the original building.
In addition the Church wished to rearrange and increase the space in the foyer and meeting rooms.
Archadia’s proposals creatively manipulated the existing ground floor area to allow a larger foyer to be created with corner sliding doors opening onto new meeting rooms.
At first floor level a new conference/seminar room with the latest audio visual facilities allows the church to attract organisations to make good use of this valuable building resource.