Unitarian Chapel
UNITARIAN CHAPEL, KING EDWARD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291252
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Unitarian Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- UNITARIAN CHAPEL, KING EDWARD STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-10-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/99004/34
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291252
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Unitarian Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITARIAN CHAPEL, KING EDWARD STREET
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:
- UNITARIAN CHAPEL, KING EDWARD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Macclesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 91680 73805
Details
MACCLESFIELD
SJ9173NE KING EDWARD STREET 886-1/10/115 (South side) 14/04/49 Unitarian Chapel
GV II*
Unitarian chapel. Dated 1690, with C19 alterations. Coursed and squared rubble with plinth, and stone-flagged roof. Galleried interior expressed as 2 storeys, 6-window range. EXTERIOR: external staircases giving access to galleries at each side, the lower doorways beneath the stairway. Ogee arched upper doorway, shallow segmental arches to lower openings. Windows are 2- and 3-light mullions, with traceried glazing, renewed in 1929, with the exception of the central windows on each floor, which were then blocked on the inside, and which retain their C19 glazing - interlace tracery with coloured glass margin lights. INTERIOR: entered via a lobby passage to west. Fittings mainly date from early re-ordering of 1846 and form a coherent design. Galleries to east and west, a former south gallery removed in C19. Blind trefoiled panelling of gallery echoed in panels between queen posts of roof structure, and in wall panelling to north and south. 2-decker pulpit in centre of north wall, with suspended sounding board. Plain panelled, with turned balusters to stairs. Pews mainly C19. Gilded cusped tracery to wall panels each side of pulpit, with painted prayers. The panelling was extended across the windows each side of the pulpit in 1929. Organ of 1846 on east gallery. The chapel is built to exactly the same design as other late C17 Unitarian chapels in Knutsford and Wilmslow.
Listing NGR: SJ9168273804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391021
- 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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