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Latitude: 53.761 / 53°45'39"N
Longitude: -2.6923 / 2°41'32"W
OS Eastings: 354458
OS Northings: 429630
OS Grid: SD544296
Mapcode National: GBR TC1.77
Mapcode Global: WH85M.MQ5L
Plus Code: 9C5VQ865+C3
Entry Name: Former Unitarian Chapel
Listing Date: 9 April 1974
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1209829
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391965
ID on this website: 101209829
Location: Preston, Lancashire, PR1
County: Lancashire
District: Preston
Electoral Ward/Division: Town Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Preston
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Preston St John and St George the Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
SD5429NW
941-1/10/319
PRESTON
CHURCH STREET(North side)
Former Unitarian Chapel
09/04/74
GV
II
Unitarian chapel. 1717, enlarged and altered in C19; now derelict. Red brick in English garden wall bond, mostly covered with scored render; slate roof. L-plan, set back from
the street with the main range at right-angles to it, an apse at the south end and a short wing attached at the north end of the west side. The main range is single-storey with 3 rectangular windows under round-headed arches linked by a thin impost band which is interrupted and raised slightly in each arch, the centre and right-hand arches containing lunettes and the left blind or blocked. The roof has small skylights, and a ventilator on the ridge. The south end has a 5-sided apse with round-headed windows; the east side, which is not rendered, as 3 segmental-headed windows, and lunettes over the first two of these, and near the north end a small chimney breaking the eaves. The short wing on the west side is of 2 low storeys and has a doorway close to the angle, with a doorcase of engaged Tuscan columns with entablature and cornice, a blocked window above, one smaller window on each floor to the left, and roof of graduated slates. Continued to the west of this is a large late C19 or early C20 red brick 2-storey 5-window range which has large windows with altered glazing.
INTERIOR not inspected.
History: first Nonconformist chapel built in Preston (patron Sir Henry Hoghton), originally known as Presbyterian chapel, and now the oldest place of worship in the town.
Listing NGR: SD5444029621
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