Norcliffe Chapel
NORCLIFFE CHAPEL, ALTRINCHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222255
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Norcliffe Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- NORCLIFFE CHAPEL, ALTRINCHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1222255
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Norcliffe Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORCLIFFE CHAPEL, ALTRINCHAM 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:
- NORCLIFFE CHAPEL, ALTRINCHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Styal
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83448 83448
Details
SJ 88 SW WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. ALTRINCHAM ROAD (South Side) Styal
1/249 Norcliffe Chapel
GV II
Formerly Baptist Chapel, from 1833 Unitarian Chapel: 1823 for Samuel Greg, chancel and porch 1857 for Robert Greg and club room added 1905. English garden wall bond red brick, stone dressings. Kerridge stone-slate roof, and stone ridge. 5-bay nave, 3-bay chancel, south-east porch, and club room to north. Stone plinth and band at sill level. Bays of nave divided by later buttresses have stone rectangular windows with pairs of lancets. Open gabled timber-framed porch with trefoil headed entrance and lights. Behind is a 2-centred arched stone doorcase with a pair of studded oak doors. On the nave ridge is a square open timber bellcote with a tall pyramidal roof. Single trefoil lights in chancel with label moulds. East window of 3 lights with rose in apex. Interior: Nave has arch-braced tiebeam trusses sprung from stone corbels. Chancel arch on engaged quatrefoil colonnettes on stone corbels. Trefoil headed door to vestry. Memorials to Greg family are simple white marble plaques on black marble bases. Organ with painted pipes of 1882 by Forster and Andrews, Hull.
Listing NGR: SJ8344883448
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 414370
- 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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