Unitarian Chapel (Platt Chapel) is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. Chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Unitarian Chapel (Platt Chapel)
- WRENN ID
- slow-tracery-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Unitarian Chapel (Platt Chapel), Wilmslow Road, M14 6JA
- OS grid reference
- SJ 855 944
- Coordinates
- 53.44679, -2.21871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Unitarian Chapel, also known as Platt Chapel, is located on Wilmslow Road in Fallowfield, Manchester. Built in 1790, it is possibly designed by John Carr of York and underwent alterations in 1874. The chapel is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and features a slate roof with red tiled ridge pieces. It has a small rectangular plan with a canted apse at the north end, an added wing, and 20th-century additions to the west side.
The building is a single storey with three bays, each containing round-headed blank arches with stone imposts. There is a round-headed multi-paned window with radiating glazing bars in each bay, along with a corbel table at the eaves and coped gables, likely added during the 1874 alterations. The entrance front at the south end is gabled and features a gabled Romanesque-style doorway from 1874, flanked by small round-headed windows. Above the doorway is a large round-headed blank arch that contains a window with three stepped, tall round-headed lights, flanked by similar windows, all featuring radiating glazing bars. The chapel also has a gabled apex bellcote. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Unitarian Chapel (Platt Chapel) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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