| Description | This former Congregational Chapel was built c.1852 and was designed by Lockwood and Mawson. At the time of the English Heritage survey in 1982, the building was in industrial use, however, planning permission was granted for its conversion to office suites in 2007 (Chamberlin, 2007; Haigh, 2008).
The chapel is built in Gothic Revival Early English style from hammer dressed sandstone with a Westmoreland green slate roof. The front of the chapel has a very shallow gabled porch with triple lancets above containing stained glass, and a pair of entrances below. Above the porch is a tympanum containing a corbelled niche with an angel statuette. There are also a number of highly decorative corbels supporting the roof trusses inside the chapel that are all of cherub and human faces. The right and left returns are of five bays, each of which has a pair of chamfered lancets, and are articulated by shallow buttresses.
‘A convincing if modest design finely executed’ (English Heritage, 1982). |