E Pitio Plastics

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SD 91 SW ROCHDALE WEST STREET (east side) 7/119 E. Pitio - Plastics G.V. II

Baptist chapel, now warehouse. 1833. Brick with stone dressings and slate roof. Galleried hall with west entrance and a small chancel. Front elevation has two storeys and three bays, the central one being slightly recessed. Doric portico in antis with two fluted columns rising from a 5- step approach. All windows have stone architraves and marginal glazing bars, the ground floor ones having square head with lugged architraves, the first floor having pilasters and a cornice. The eaves cornice is heavy and projects considerably, with blocking course. The 6-bay side elevation has stone sills and flat brick arches to ground floor, semi-circular to first floor. Key motif brickwork decoration to chancel. Most internal fittings are absent but the gallery remains, supported on cast iron columns, as does the coffered plaster ceiling. The chancel arch is flanked by giant coupled pilasters and has a panelled soffit.

Listing NGR: SD9015413815

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1091 Ioe Records Taken By Pamela Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Ms Pamela Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project