Former Unitarian Chapel and Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1982. Chapel.

Former Unitarian Chapel and Sunday School

WRENN ID
rusted-flagstone-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 1982
Type
Chapel
Address
Former Unitarian Chapel and Sunday School, Wellfield Terrace, Todmorden
OS grid reference
SD 936 239
Coordinates
53.71194, -2.09775
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Unitarian Chapel and Sunday School in Todmorden was built between 1822 and 1824 as a Methodist-Unitarian chapel and was later replaced by Gibson's Unitarian Church on Honey Holey Road in 1869. An additional cross-wing was added in 1899. The building now serves as a plastics factory. It is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a slate roof. The structure is single-storey facing the road and two-storey on the valley side, with the original Sunday School located on the lower-ground floor. The cross-wing is gabled and three-storey.

The front features five bays with squared surround windows, and there are two similar windows at the southwest end. The original Sunday School's lower-ground floor windows still have their glazing bars. The roof has a low pitch with half hips and console brackets that are spaced along the gutter-eaves cornice. The building has chamfered rusticated quoins, and the cross-wing displays a shaped gable with kneelers. The doorway for the Sunday School entrance features a triple keystone above which is an inscribed tablet set within a recess that reads: "TO THE MEMORY OF SAMUEL, JOHN, AND JOSHUA FIELDEN, Constant Benefactors of THE UNITARIAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL This stone was laid by S. ALFRED STEINTHAL June 17th 1899."

The first floor has three large windows, and both the five-bay return and the five-bay main range have windows with plain stone surrounds. The gable on the south side has a loading bay that was inserted around 1980.

Local climate

Former Unitarian Chapel and Sunday School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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