Independent Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1980. Chapel, former cinema. 3 related planning applications.
Independent Chapel
- WRENN ID
- moated-belfry-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Salford MP: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1980
- Type
- Chapel, former cinema
- Address
- Independent Chapel, Chapel Street, M3 6BY
- OS grid reference
- SJ 829 985
- Coordinates
- 53.48356, -2.25771
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Independent Chapel, originally a cinema, was built in 1915. It features a combination of faience and roughcast render, with a late 20th-century brick wall on the right side. The building has a half-hipped roof covered in Welsh slate and a rectangular auditorium behind a recessed entrance and lobby located in the left-hand corner. The exterior is designed in a Baroque style and presents as two storeys.
The central bay of the front elevation is flanked by broad rusticated pilasters and features two elaborately moulded circular windows, with similar oval windows on either side, all set within roughcast panels. Above the central bay is a segmental-arched pediment that displays the words 'Salford Cinema AD 1915' within a moulded segmental panel. The ground floor includes doorways at the center and right-hand side, with paired rectangular windows in between, and the main entrance is set in the radiused left-hand corner behind a porch supported by four Ionic columns beneath a curved cornice on consoles. Above this is a swagged frieze, an elaborate balustrade, and an open cupola on six columns with decorated capitals.
The interior has been significantly altered but the building remains an important example of early cinema architecture.
Local climate
Independent Chapel sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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