Brook Street Unitarian Chapel
BROOK STREET UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ADAMS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388306
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Street Unitarian Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK STREET UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ADAMS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388306
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Street Unitarian Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK STREET UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ADAMS HILL
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:
- BROOK STREET UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ADAMS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knutsford
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 75429 78361
Details
KNUTSFORD
SJ7478 ADAM'S HILL 792-1/3/1 (South East side) 18/01/49 Brook Street Unitarian Chapel (Formerly Listed as: ADAM'S HILL Unitarian Chapel)
GV I
Unitarian chapel. 1689. Brick with stone-flagged roof. PLAN: single-celled structure, the galleried interior expressed externally as 2 storeys. EXTERIOR: 6 window range. Outer entrances in shallow segmental arches beneath external staircases each side, giving access to upper doorways leading to gallery. 2-light mullioned windows throughout, with 4 to ground floor, the chamfered mullions and surrounds rendered over, and with flat brick hoodmoulds. Additional 2 single-light windows centrally, between the storeys. INTERIOR: entered from a lobby to SW, screened off from the main chapel in the early C18. The main body of the chapel has gallery running round 3 sides, with pulpit in centre of long wall, between the additional windows presumably placed to light it. Short communion rail in front of pulpit, and font opposite. Pulpit possibly late C17 or early C18, polygonal with heavy panelling, curved stair, and splayed base. Gallery has splat balusters and panelled pews, and is supported on chamfered timber posts. Pews in lower storey date from 1859. HISTORY: the chapel is associated with the writer Elizabeth Gaskell, who attended as a child, and who is buried in the churchyard.
Listing NGR: SJ7542778361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476312
- 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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