Hale Chapel

Hale Chapel is a Presbyterian meeting house, now serving as a Unitarian chapel, built in 1723 with a vestry and alterations made around 1880. The building is constructed of English garden wall bond brick and features a slate roof. It has a classic early chapel layout, although the gallery was removed, and the vestry and bellcote were added. In the late 19th century, the two side doors were blocked, and the gable end door became the main entrance. The chapel consists of four bays, with blocked doors in the first and fourth bays, and timber mullion and transom leaded windows topped with segmental brick arches. There are small buttresses and a wall-mounted sundial dated 1812 in the second bay. The north elevation has preacher's windows, and there are windows on each gable, with the west gable window dating from the 19th century. Inside, the chapel features a well-preserved early 18th-century pulpit with a sounding board and a splat baluster rail, along with box pews and oak fishbone king-post trusses. There is also 19th-century stained glass. Hale Chapel is notable as the earliest place of worship in Hale or Halebarns and is a fine example of an early non-conformist chapel.