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# URC Buildings Forum

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- [Home](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/) - Welcome to the United Reformed Church Buildings Forum A resource to encourage and assist churches to develop creative thinking around the potential and the missional use of buildings. You can read more about the objectives of the Buildings Forum, here Next Buildings for Mission Forum webinars – save the date: Tuesday 10 November 2026: 11.30am
- [Forum Conferences](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/about-the-forum/forum-conferences/) - Buildings for Mission Forum Webinars Since April 2021, the Buildings Forum has met regularly, using online conferences as a way of sharing our work. These well-attended events create a network of sharing and support and are an invaluable way of illustrating that none of us are alone on these journeys. Details of upcoming conferences can
- [Contact Us](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/contact-us/) - Get in Touch with us Please call, email or contact us using the form below and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Name * First Last Message Comment or Email *
- [Privacy Policy](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/privacy-policy/) - Our Privacy Notice The United Reformed Church takes your privacy very seriously. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users. We have set out how we deal with your personal data, your privacy, and other various rights you have, when you use this website or supply information to us.
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- [Links and Resources](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/links-and-resources/) - Useful Links and Resources This page contains a list of resources covering many aspects of building presevation and usage. It is not exhaustive, and we are always adding to it. If you know of a useful resources not listed here, please let us know and we will add it. Thank you. Historic England Historic England
- [Stories](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/stories/) - Stories of Mission-focused Church Buildings On this page, we want to bring you stories of successful restorations, upgrades and refurbishments. Whether the project was to improve accessibility, create a more open and inviting space, or a complete overhaul, sharing the results – and learning – can be so helpful to others currently considering the challenge
- [Christchurch Needham Market](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/christchurch-needham-market/) - Christchurch United Reformed Church , Needham Market Listed Grade II building constructed in 1837 to the designs of James Fenton of Chelmsford and altered on two or three occasions, the ground floor windows being replaced by a loggia in 1912. Further to previous reconstruction of the rear halls and alterations to the Sanctuary this project
- [Crossway](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/crossway/) - Crossway United Reformed Church Crossway United Reformed Church has served the Elephant and Castle under differing denomination titles for over 150 years. The original building in New Kent Road was replaced with a modern building in 1973 before regeneration of the area resulted in this third incarnation. The common feature of the church has been
- [Warwick Road Roof Project](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/warwick-road-roof-project/) - Warwick Road Roof Project - Coventry Warwick Road URC, being a Grade II Listed church, was one of the first churches in the most recent round of the West Midlands Quinquennial Inspection (QI) Surveys. The QI report was completed in September 2013. A large part of that report highlighted urgent lead and slate repairs on
- [Pew to Bed in King's Lynn](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/pew-to-bed-in-kings-lynn/) - From Pew to Bed in King's Lynn A testimony concerning a commission and provision from the Lord God’s work done in God’s ways never lacks God’s resources (Hudson Taylor) During October 2015 I was praying and asked the Lord for something to do that, with the skills He had given me, would be of Kingdom
- [What do our Buildings say about us](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/what-do-our-buildings-say-about-us/) - What do our buildings say about us? We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us. Winston Churchill We are used to reading the signs which tell us a lot about the occupiers of building, for Churches they can speak louder than the occupants and the notice board. The big question is, are these
- [What Sort of Building do we need](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/what-sort-of-building-do-we-need/) - What Sort of Building do we need? We build too many walls and not enough bridges Isaac Newton Having looked at how much of our activity should be based in our own building we all recognise the organisational and corporate statement and ‘thin place’ benefits of our own building. Provided of course that we can
- [Mission Strategy and Building Development Planning](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/mission-strategy-and-building-development-planning/) - Mission Strategy and Building Development Planning The Premises Development plan represents the route to achieving the facilities required by an individual or wider Church family incorporating sufficient flexibility and review processes to ensure that it continually reflects the needs of the Church. It can be incorporated into a broader Asset Management Plan. It will enable:
- [Use by Other Faiths](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/use-by-other-faiths/) - Use of Church Buildings by other faiths Requests for advice have been received at Church House concerning whether the URC has ever made any statement about the use of our church buildings by people of other faiths. This has served to bring this into sharper focus but is connected too to the concern that by
- [Theology of Buildings](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/theology-of-buildings/) - Theology of Buildings Probably all Christian traditions have some ritual for the “setting apart” of buildings used for worship and service. Roman Catholics, for example, make use of the oil of Chrism that is used in baptism and confirmation. Some traditions will consecrate their church buildings whilst others dedicate or bless them which can lead
- [Mission and Buildings](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/mission-and-buildings/) - Mission and Buildings The exercises and assessment suggestions offered here require as a starting point an understanding of how the buildings we occupy and which have become a part of us shapes the way we see ourselves and what we can and cannot do. We are shaped by our inheritance. To fully understand what we
- [Churches in Context](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/churches-in-context/) - Churches in Context The context in which a church building is set is crucial to an understanding both of its design and the functions that it may fulfill. Yes, it is first and foremost a place of worship but it is also a message in bricks and mortar about the relevance of the gospel to
- [Who is Who](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/who-is-who/) - Who is Who Steering Group Clifford Patten David Skipp Steve Summers David Tatem (Webmaster) Synod Reps Northern Melanie Campbell North Western Mike Aspinall Mersey Mike Rushton Yorkshire Val Morrison East Midlands Peter Rippon West Midlands Barry Goldsby Eastern Peter West South Western Ian Kirby Wessex Stuart MacLean Thames North David Skipp Southern Wales Scotland
- [Do we Really Need a Building](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/do-we-really-need-a-building/) - Do we really need a building? We have a broad understanding that we have too many Church buildings to properly maintain, alter in response to current needs and fully utilise, and this comes into particular and challenging focus for individual church families. We understand the need to maintain buildings as a facilitator and not because
- [Handing on](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/handing-on/) - Handing on We would like to encourage further debate as to how we honour the original intent of those who built and funded the construction of buildings we now find, for a wide variety of reasons are now not needed to accommodate a local Church. These buildings, their sites or the invested funds, are a
- [LEPS and Shared Buildings](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/leps-and-shared-buildings/) - LEP's and Shared Buildings Over time this page will contain information specifically intended to help Local Ecumenical Partnerships and URC churches involved in sharing premises with other churches access useful resources and information. Some of this already available on the CTE website. The Methodist/URC Liaison Group also regularly responds to buildings related questions and guidance
- [How our Heritage shapes Us](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/how-our-heritage-shapes-us/) - How our Heritage shapes us ‘We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us’ Winston Churchill We are not always aware of the extent to which the location, nature, accommodation and layout of our buildings shape the way we think and operate and consequently shapes our planning for the future, our starting point is therefore likely
- [Carver Uniting Church](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/carver-uniting-church/) - Carver Uniting Church Many people will know Carver Church through visits to the Windermere Centre. Now a Uniting Church with the Methodists, the church has undergone several transformations in recent years, to a light and flexible space.
- [About the Forum](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/about-the-forum/) - About the Forum Formal membership of the Forum is made up of representatives from each synod of the URC, the URC Mission Committee and from other agencies within the denomination including the Church Related Community Work program, Mission Enablers and Children and Youth Work networks. It is also open to anyone in the denomination with
- [Our Church Buildings Inheritance](https://urcbuildingsforum.co.uk/our-church-buildings-inheritance/)
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