Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford

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]

Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford
Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford
Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford
Location in Cheshire
OS grid referenceSJ 754 783
LocationKnutsford, Cheshire
CountryEngland
DenominationUnitarian
WebsiteBrook Street Chapel
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationGrade I
Designated18 January 1949
Architectural typeChapel
Specifications
MaterialsRed brick,
stone-flagged roof

It is the burial place of the novelist Mrs Gaskell who died in 1865, her husband William Gaskell who died in 1884, and their two unmarried daughters who died in 1908 and 1913.[2]

It is still in use as a Unitarian chapel.[3]

See also

References

  1. Historic England, "Brook Street Unitarian Chapel, Knutsford (1388306)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 May 2012
  2. Richards, Raymond (1947), Old Cheshire Churches, London: Batsford, pp. 376–378, OCLC 719918
  3. Brook Street Chapel, Brook Street Chapel, retrieved 10 January 2011
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