Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester
The Welsh Baptist Chapel, also known as the Islamic Academy and the Unitarian Chapel, is a former chapel with an attached Sunday School on the east side of Upper Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester. It is said to be the first Gothic Nonconformist chapel.[1]
Interior of chapel has galleries to 3 sides, ribbed vaulted ceiling. History: said to be the first Gothic Nonconformist chapel.
It was designed by Sir Charles Barry,[1] shortly before he designed the Palace of Westminster. It was constructed between 1837 and 1839 out of sandstone, with a slate roof. I is in English Gothic style. The building has seven narrow bays, with buttresses and a lancet (a an acutely pointed Gothic-style arch) in each bay. The west end has a giant moulded archway, with an arched doorway at the ground floor with a window above. On the east end there is a rose window. The corners are square, with pinnacles.[1]
The attached 2-storey Sunday School is in the same style as the Chapel, and has a triple-gabled north side, with large arched windows on the 1st floor. It also has a canted apse on the west end, and a lean-to porch.[1]
It was listed as Grade II* on 3 October 1974.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Images of England: Number 457776". English Heritage. Retrieved 2008-03-16.