Description

SE02NE QUEENSBURY HALIFAX ROAD
(west side)
Ambler Thorn

6/24 Union Croft
30th April 1982 Congregational
Chapel (formerly
listed as United
Reformed Church)

II

Congregational chapel. Dated 1842, with 1925 addition. Dressed
sandstone. Stone slate roof. Two storeys. Three-bay symmetrical
gable front. Central, panelled, double door with stone slab canopy
on carved brackets. 4-pane casement windows. Central lst-floor sash
window. Round-arched light in gable apex and. tablet which reads:

UNION
CROFT CHAPEL
AD 1842

Gable copings returned as springers. 1925 addition at rear with many
memorial stones in gable end. Three-bay side elevations.

Interior: Organ loft and choir gallery with central pulpit, with
panelled front. Elaborately carved organ case, probably c1925.
Gallery to rear and sides, with panelled fronts, on cast-iron columns.
Box pews to gallery. Pews to ground floor and choir gallery c1880.

F. Barrett, A History of Queensbury, 1963.

Listing NGR: SE0934229445

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26426519

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  For the Record