Birchcliffe Centre

Birchcliffe Centre, formerly known as Birchcliffe Baptist Church, is a former Baptist chapel that has been converted into a conference centre, built in 1898. The building is constructed of ashlar with marble columns and features a slate roof in a Palladian style. The impressive two-storey front includes a single-storey porch that connects to flanking pavilion blocks, with the main chapel situated between them. The porch is designed as a projecting four-bay Doric arcaded screen that supports a dentilled cornice and balustrade.

The central chapel has a three-bay front divided by fluted Ionic pilasters, with windows featuring lugged architraves between them. The central window is topped with a segmental pediment. The corners are adorned with Doric outer pilasters. Above, there is a dentilled entablature with a triangular pediment, which contains a tympanum featuring a two-light window under an ornamental head. The pedimented pavilion blocks on either side house staircases and have parapets topped with urns. The front of the building is accessed by a flight of steps with a stone balustrade.

The seven-bay return is made of pitch-faced stone and features wide single-storey aisles with two-light windows that have plain stone surrounds. Inside, the chapel has an inserted floor at gallery level. The ground floor is used as offices, while the upper floor serves as a conference hall that retains galleried pews. The interior features an arcade of four semi-circular arches supported by Roman Doric columns made of red marble, and there are circular clerestorey windows. The chancel arch is decorated with moulded plaster panels, and the decorative scheme is preserved, including a four-light window with a lunette that contains a stained glass panel depicting the baptism of Christ. The building is illustrated in C. Spencer's Hebden Bridge History Trail.