This is a list of churches in the United Reformed Church, a medium-sized Protestant denomination in the United Kingdom. In 1972, the Presbyterian Church of England united with the Congregational Church in England and Wales to form the United Reformed Church (URC).
The 2022 General Assembly report wrote, "As a denomination, we are a small fraction of who and what we were in 1972 – we have about a fifth of the membership we had on our formation, and the number of churches has fallen from a little over 2,000 to a little under 1,300. We have about three-fifths the number of churches compared with one-fifth of the membership. These churches are served by 390 Ministers (Stipendiary and Non-Stipendiary), compared to 1,844 in 1972. Again, the ‘workforce’ of Ministers of Word and Sacrament is about one-fifth of the number 50 years ago."
Synods
1Challenge to Change, the report of a Welsh Churches Survey conducted by the Bible Society in 1995, showed that there were 140 United Reformed chapels.
East Midlands Synod
Former URC churches in East Midlands Synod
Eastern Synod
Former URC churches in Eastern Synod
Mersey Synod
Former URC churches in Mersey Synod
Northern Synod
Former URC churches in Northern Synod
North Western Synod
Former URC churches in North Western Synod
Scotland Synod
Former URC churches in Scotland Synod
South Western Synod
Website
Former URC churches in South Western Synod
Southern Synod
Website
Former URC churches in Southern Synod
Thames North Synod
Former URC churches in Thames North Synod
Wales Synod
1Baptist (GB), Baptist (Wales), CiW, Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian, Independents, URC
Former URC churches in Wales Synod
Wessex Synod
Former URC churches in Wessex Synod
West Midlands Synod
Former URC churches in West Midlands Synod
Yorkshire Synod
Former URC churches in Yorkshire Synod
References
Bibliography
External links
In recent years the URC has surpassed any other denomination by producing detailed year-by-year reports of which of its churches have closed, complete in the majority of cases with short histories. Reports on recently closed URC churches may be found at the following:
Churches that closed in 2002-03
Churches that closed in 2003-04
Churches that closed in 2004-05
Churches that closed in 2005-06 (also contains on p7 a map of the geographical coverage of Synods) Churches that closed in 2006-07 Churches that closed in 2007-08 Churches that closed in 2008-10 Churches that closed in 2010-12 Churches that closed in 2012-14 Churches that closed in 2014-16 Churches that closed in 2016-18 Churches that closed in 2018-20 Churches that closed in 2020-21 Churches that closed in 2021-22