Community centres and churches

United Reform Church

Kingston upon Thames

Improved access and new entrance and lift tower

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.

Key Facts

Grade II listed building 
   
New lift tower 


New conference room with latest 
audio-visual equipment


Improved access and new entrance
and lift tower