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© Mr J M Pickering
IoE Number:
476312
Location:
BROOK STREET UNITARIAN CHAPEL, ADAMS HILL (south east side)
KNUTSFORD, MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE
Photographer:
Mr J M Pickering
Date Photographed:
03 September 2000
Date listed:
18 January 1949
Date of last amendment:
27 May 1999
Grade
I
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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.