Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester

Upper Brook Street Chapel
The former chapel, in 2017
Religion
Affiliation
Ecclesiastical or organizational status
Status
  • Closed (as a chapel)
  • Repurposed
Location
LocationUpper Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England
Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester is located in Manchester
Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester
Location of the former chapel in Manchester
Geographic coordinates53°28′9″N 2°13′53″W / 53.46917°N 2.23139°W / 53.46917; -2.23139
Architecture
Architect(s)Sir Charles Barry
TypeChurch architecture
Style
Groundbreaking1837
Completed1839
MaterialsSandtstone; slate
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameFormer Unitarian chapel
Designated3 October 1974
Reference no.1270670

The Upper Brook Street Chapel, also known as the Unitarian Chapel, the Welsh Baptist Chapel, and later Islamic Academy, is a former chapel of historical architectural importance with an attached Sunday School, located on the east side of Upper Brook Street in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England.

Completed as a Protestant Nonconformist chapel in 1839, the building was purposed variously as a place of worship for Unitarians, Welsh Baptists, as a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, and as an Islamic mosque, before its current purpose, since 2017, as student accommodation. Designed by Sir Charles Barry as the first Gothic Revival chapel for the British Unitarians, at the very beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria, the building was listed as Grade II* on the Buildings at Risk Register, rated as "very bad", on 3 October 1974. The building is owned by Manchester City Council and was partially demolished in 2006. The Victorian Society placed the building on a list of ten most threatened buildings in England and Wales. It was restored and converted to student accommodation in 2017 by Buttress Architects.


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