BROOK STREET UNITARIAN CHAPEL

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
List Entry Name:: BROOK STREET UNITARIAN CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: BROOK STREET UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ADAMS HILL

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Official list entry

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BROOK STREET UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ADAMS HILL

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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)

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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

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Legacy System number:: 476312
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.