Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford
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| Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford | |
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| Basic information | |
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| Location | Knutsford, Cheshire, England |
| Geographic coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Religious affiliation | Unitarian |
| Ecclesiastical status | Chapel |
| Architectural description | |
| Architectural type | Chapel |
| Year completed | 1689 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Red brick, stone-flagged roof |
Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford is in the town of Knutsford, Cheshire, England (grid reference SJ754784). It is a 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]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Images of England: Brook Street Unitarian Chapel. English Heritage. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.
- ^ a b Richards, Raymond (1947). Old Cheshire Churches. London: Batsford, 376–378.
- ^ The Unitarian Movement: Manchester District Association. The Unitarian and Free Christian Churches. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.
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