Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford
| Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford | |
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Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford | |
  Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford Location in Cheshire | |
| Coordinates: 53°18′06″N 2°22′12″W / 53.3017°N 2.3701°W | |
| OS grid reference | SJ 754 783 |
| Location | Knutsford, Cheshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Unitarian |
| Website | Brook Street Chapel |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade I |
| Designated | 18 January 1949 |
| Architectural type | Chapel |
| Specifications | |
| Materials |
Red brick, stone-flagged roof |
Brook Street Chapel, is in the town of Knutsford, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[1] The chapel was built in soon after the passing of the Act of Toleration 1689.[2] It is built in red brick with a stone-flagged roof in two storeys with two external staircases. Inside is a gallery on three sides and a pulpit on a long wall. The pulpit dates from the late 17th or early 18th century and the pews from 1859.[1]
It is the burial place of the novelist Mrs Gaskell who died in 1865, her husband William Gaskell who died in 1884, and her two daughters who died in 1908 and 1913.[2]
It is still in use as a Unitarian chapel.[3]
See also
- Grade I listed churches in Cheshire
- Grade I listed buildings in Cheshire East
- Listed buildings in Knutsford
References
- 1 2 Historic England, "Brook Street Unitarian Chapel, Knutsford (1388306)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 May 2012
- 1 2 Richards, Raymond (1947), Old Cheshire Churches, London: Batsford, pp. 376–378, OCLC 719918
- ↑ Brook Street Chapel, Brook Street Chapel, retrieved 10 January 2011
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