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© Mr John Riley
IoE Number:
457776
Location:
ISLAMIC ACADEMY, UPPER BROOK STREET (east side)
MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER, GREATER MANCHESTER
Photographer:
Mr John Riley
Date Photographed:
31 December 2004
Date listed:
03 October 1974
Date of last amendment:
06 June 1994
Grade
II*
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MANCHESTER
SJ8496 UPPER BROOK STREET
698-1/21/621 (East side)
03/10/74 Chorlton-On-Medlock
Islamic Academy
(Formerly Listed as:
UPPER BROOK STREET
(East side)
Chorlton-On-Medlock
Welsh Baptist Chapel)
II*
Formerly known as: Unitarian chapel UPPER BROOK STREET
Chorlton-On-Medlock.
Unitarian chapel with attached Sunday School, subsequently
Welsh Baptist church, now Islamic Academy. 1837-9, by Sir
Charles Barry. Coursed squared sandstone, slate roofs. Early
English style. Seven narrow bays with buttresses, a tall
lancet with hoodmould in each bay; gabled west facade with
giant archway moulded in 3 orders and containing a similar
recessed arch with moulded 2-centred arched doorway at ground
floor and 2-light window above; rose window in east gable;
square corner pinnacles. Sunday School on same axis to north,
attached by a link, 2-storeyed under 2-span roof,
triple-gabled north side with large 2-centred arched windows
at 1st floor each of 3 lancet lights; canted apse to west end,
lean-to porch in angle. Interior of chapel has galleries to 3
sides, ribbed vaulted ceiling. History: said to be the first
Gothic Nonconformist chapel.