Dean Row Unitarian Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1951. A C17 Chapel. 1 related planning application.

Dean Row Unitarian Chapel

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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1951
Type
Chapel
Address
Dean Row Unitarian Chapel, Adlington Road, Wilmslow, SK9 2BX
OS grid reference
SJ 871 815
Coordinates
53.33067, -2.19513
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dean Row Unitarian Chapel is a former Presbyterian chapel built around 1695, with restorations carried out in 1844 and 1971. The building is constructed of English garden wall bond red brick with sandstone dressings and features a Kerridge stone-slate roof with a stone ridge. It has a long rectangular plan and a symmetrical two-storey south front with eight bays. The end bays project slightly and have small porches with elliptical brick arches, each containing studded board doors fitted with iron fishtail strap hinges. Inside each end bay, there is a flight of 13 external steps with stone-coped side walls leading to similar doors that access the galleries. Between the end bays are four two-light rebated chamfered stone mullioned windows with brick hood moulds below, and six similar windows above, all of which have been restored. In the center of the front, there are bronze war memorial plaques. Both gables are stone-coped and topped with ball finials, with the west gable featuring a sanctus bellcote.

Inside, the chapel has galleries at both ends, with the east gallery now housing an organ. The altar table is enclosed by a curving rail at the east end, and the pulpit, which consists of three levels of recessed moulded panels, has been moved from the center of the north side. The front of the west gallery displays a record of past ministers and is supported by an ovolo-moulded beam.

The chapel is very similar to those in Macclesfield and Knutsford, which were built around the same time, although it has lost its original interior layout due to the restoration in 1844, when the pulpit and seating arrangement were reorganized.

Local climate

Dean Row Unitarian Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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