Blackley Baptist Church

Blackley Baptist Church is a large chapel built in 1878, situated on a prominent hilltop site. It is constructed of dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a tall, two-storey front with a pediment gable. The building has a plinth string and sill courses, along with a deeply moulded pediment. The windows are archivolt arched, with marginal glazing, and are grouped at the center above paired doorways that have archivolt arched fanlights. These doorways are framed by engaged Roman Doric columns topped with a common entablature.

Inside, the church has a continuous curve-ended raked gallery supported by cast iron columns with foliate caps. Stairs with richly turned balusters and newels rise on both sides of a deeply panelled pulpit. The ceiling features moulded beams with rose vents in each bay. The box pews on the ground floor are arranged in a hemicycle, focused towards the front, and the church was built to accommodate a congregation of around 1,600 people. To the west, the earlier chapel from 1789 still exists and is used as the caretaker's house.