Dukinfield Old Chapel
DUKINFIELD OLD CHAPEL, OLD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1068077
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Dukinfield Old Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- DUKINFIELD OLD CHAPEL, OLD ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-02-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/01561/11
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1068077
- Date first listed:
- 17-Dec-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Dukinfield Old Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUKINFIELD OLD CHAPEL, OLD ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DUKINFIELD OLD CHAPEL, OLD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 94359 97963
Details
SJ 99 NW, 3/9
DUKINFIELD, OLD ROAD
(east side),
Dukinfield Old Chapel
(formerly listed under Chapel Hill)
17/12/70
GV
II*
Unitarian chapel. 1840-1, replacing an earlier building of
1707. By R. Tattersall. Ashlar with slate roof. Cruciform
plan but with 3-sided gallery, aisles and an east organ.
Early C14 style. West doorway beneath a 5-light window with
geometric tracery. The gable is flanked by large octagonal
pinnacles which are buttressed at the lower stages. Small
stair wings to either side. The transepts have three lancet
windows, raked coped gables with kneelers and clasping
buttresses. Three bays to either side of the transepts have
flat buttresses, lancet aisle windows with hoodmoulds and
carved stops and lancet clerestory windows flanked by
smaller blind lancets. Interior: quatrefoil piers with cast
iron cores support galleries as well as the nave arcade.
Lofty nave and transepts have quadripartite vaulting.
Timberwork includes an elevated central pulpit. Wall
plaques. Stained glass by Comere and Capronnier, and Morris
of various dates. The north transept window (Morris)
depicts George, David and Jonathan.
Listing NGR: SJ9435997963
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212465
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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