Key facts
- Address
- Manchester
Greater Manchester - Listed status
- Grade II* listed
Sources: Historic England list entry 1068472, Wikipedia, Wikidata Q5105530
Before visiting Chowbent Chapel
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About Chowbent Chapel
Chowbent Chapel is a Unitarian church in Atherton, within Greater Manchester. Completed in 1721, it remains in use for worship and is Atherton’s earliest surviving religious building. It forms part of the national body representing Unitarian and Free Christian congregations in Britain. The chapel received Grade II* protection in 1966.
Its congregation moved here after being removed from a previous seventeenth-century meeting house following political disputes connected with the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. Nathan Mort provided the site for the replacement chapel. The structure uses rough-textured brickwork laid in a Flemish pattern above a base of sandstone rubble, with stonework at the corners, curved window heads and slate roofing. A modest rooftop bell housing contains one bell. An additional two-floor section was constructed to the south in 1901, alongside the installation of an organ made by Young of Manchester. Original enclosed seating survives within, together with oak-supported galleries and a three-stage pulpit. Stained glass includes work by Shrigley and Hunt.
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