Unitarian Chapel (Platt Chapel)
UNITARIAN CHAPEL (PLATT CHAPEL), WILMSLOW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270509
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Unitarian Chapel (Platt Chapel)
- Statutory Address:
- UNITARIAN CHAPEL (PLATT CHAPEL), WILMSLOW ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270509
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Unitarian Chapel (Platt Chapel)
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITARIAN CHAPEL (PLATT CHAPEL), WILMSLOW ROAD
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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:
- UNITARIAN CHAPEL (PLATT CHAPEL), WILMSLOW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 85571 94468
Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/02/2018
SJ 89 SE, 698-1/9/693
MANCHESTER,
FALLOWFIELD,
WILMSLOW ROAD (west side),
Unitarian Chapel (Platt Chapel)
03/10/74
II
Unitarian chapel (premises of Manchester Amateur Photographic Society when surveyed). 1790, possibly by John Carr of York; altered 1874. Red brick in Flemish bond, slate roof with red tiled ridge pieces. Small rectangular plan with canted apse at north end, added wing and C20 additions to west side. Single storey, three bays of round-headed blank arches with stone imposts, a round-headed multi-paned window with radiating glazing bars in each bay; corbel table to eaves and coped gables (probably of 1874). Gabled entrance front at south end with gabled Romanesque-style doorway (of 1874) flanked by small round-headed windows, a large round-headed blank arch above containing a window of three stepped, tall round-headed lights and flanked by similar windows, all these windows with radiating glazing bars; and gabled apex bellcote. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8557194468
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 458604
- 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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