Unitarian Chapel
UNITARIAN CHAPEL, SHEEP HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362126
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Unitarian Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- UNITARIAN CHAPEL, SHEEP HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362126
- Date first listed:
- 17-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Unitarian Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- UNITARIAN CHAPEL, SHEEP HOUSE LANE
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, SHEEP HOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rivington
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 62688 14517
Details
RIVINGTON SHEEP HOUSE LANE SD 61 SW 14/188 Unitarian Chapel 17.4.67 - II*
Unitarian chapel. Dated 1703. Squared sandstone with quoins, chamfered plinth, stone slate roof with gable bellcote. Both sides and both gables have 2 large cross-windows with small panes, the panes diamond-latticed in the gable walls and rectangular in the side walls; flanking the windows on the south side are 2 doorways with chamfered surrounds, that on the right with a pointed head and lintel inscribed "1703". On the west gable is a small hexagonal bellcote with a swept roof. Attached at the north west corner is a single-bay 2 storey wing with roof hipped down to the junction but gabled at the other end, with a tall chimney stack; this part has a door and one window on each floor of the west side and two 2-light square- mullioned windows on the east side, mostly with diamond lattice glazing. Interior: original box pews including choir stall at east end; between windows on north wall a raised 5-sided panelled pulpit with carved frieze and moulded cornice, and further east on the same wall a very large C18 wall monument to the Willoughby family of Parham, very fully lettered and with coats of arms and shields on the panel above the lettering; between windows on south side, Willoughby family pew with panelled reredos and very prominent moulded and carved cornice in classical style. NB: in graveyard at east end of chapel is the gravestone of Samuel Oldknow "of Nottingham, late of Anderton" ob 1759, one of the earliest textile factory builders. (See also Roscoe Lowe Farmhouse, Anderton CP).
Listing NGR: SD6268814517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184441
- 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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