Description

SJ 88 SW WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. ALTRINCHAM ROAD (South Side)
Styal

1/249 Norcliffe Chapel

GV II

Formerly Baptist Chapel, from 1833 Unitarian Chapel: 1823 for Samuel
Greg, chancel and porch 1857 for Robert Greg and club room added 1905.
English garden wall bond red brick, stone dressings. Kerridge
stone-slate roof, and stone ridge. 5-bay nave, 3-bay chancel,
south-east porch, and club room to north. Stone plinth and band at
sill level. Bays of nave divided by later buttresses have stone
rectangular windows with pairs of lancets. Open gabled timber-framed
porch with trefoil headed entrance and lights. Behind is a 2-centred
arched stone doorcase with a pair of studded oak doors. On the nave
ridge is a square open timber bellcote with a tall pyramidal roof.
Single trefoil lights in chancel with label moulds. East window of 3
lights with rose in apex.
Interior: Nave has arch-braced tiebeam trusses sprung from stone
corbels. Chancel arch on engaged quatrefoil colonnettes on stone
corbels. Trefoil headed door to vestry. Memorials to Greg family are
simple white marble plaques on black marble bases. Organ with painted
pipes of 1882 by Forster and Andrews, Hull.

Listing NGR: SJ8344883448

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Norcliffe Chapel at Wikipedia
• Norcliffe Chapel official website
• Wikidata Q17464260

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)