Former Unitarian Chapel
FORMER UNITARIAN CHAPEL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209829
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Unitarian Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER UNITARIAN CHAPEL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209829
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Former Unitarian Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER UNITARIAN CHAPEL, CHURCH STREET
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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:
- FORMER UNITARIAN CHAPEL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 54458 29630
Details
SD5429NW
941-1/10/319
PRESTON
CHURCH STREET(North side)
Former Unitarian Chapel
09/04/74
GV
II
Unitarian chapel. 1717, enlarged and altered in C19; now derelict. Red brick in English garden wall bond, mostly covered with scored render; slate roof. L-plan, set back from
the street with the main range at right-angles to it, an apse at the south end and a short wing attached at the north end of the west side. The main range is single-storey with 3 rectangular windows under round-headed arches linked by a thin impost band which is interrupted and raised slightly in each arch, the centre and right-hand arches containing lunettes and the left blind or blocked. The roof has small skylights, and a ventilator on the ridge. The south end has a 5-sided apse with round-headed windows; the east side, which is not rendered, as 3 segmental-headed windows, and lunettes over the first two of these, and near the north end a small chimney breaking the eaves. The short wing on the west side is of 2 low storeys and has a doorway close to the angle, with a doorcase of engaged Tuscan columns with entablature and cornice, a blocked window above, one smaller window on each floor to the left, and roof of graduated slates. Continued to the west of this is a large late C19 or early C20 red brick 2-storey 5-window range which has large windows with altered glazing.
INTERIOR not inspected.
History: first Nonconformist chapel built in Preston (patron Sir Henry Hoghton), originally known as Presbyterian chapel, and now the oldest place of worship in the town.
Listing NGR: SD5444029621
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391965
- 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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