Salendine Nook Baptist Chapel

Salendine Nook Baptist Chapel, built in 1843, stands as the original Baptist chapel for Huddersfield; it is the “parent” chapel to sixteen daughter communities and one granddaughter community. Constructed of ashlar, the building has a pitched slate roof and a basement level. The front of the chapel is topped by a pediment featuring an oculus within a plain raised surround, with a shaped apron below inscribed "Particular Baptist Chapel Rebuilt 1843" (the apron was added in 1893). Three round-arched sash windows with glazing bars are present on the front, featuring plain imposts and keystones, with the central window designed in a Venetian style. The sides have four ranges of round-arched sash windows, also with glazing bars. A two-bay extension, built in 1893 and full height, is on the south side. At ground floor level, a one-storey ante-chapel from 1893 is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings, a cornice with a parapet, projecting centrally with a balustrade. The frontispiece has two doors with semi-circular fanlights in hollow chamfered surrounds, moulded keystones, carved spandrels, and fluted pilasters with composite capitals. Round-arched side lights have moulded surrounds, keystones, and sunk moulded aprons. A moulded sill band runs along the base.

Inside, the chapel features a segmentally vaulted and coffered plaster ceiling, galleries supported by iron columns with elaborate capitals, an elaborate pulpit, furniture above the baptistery, and a pedimented and pilastered organ.

The history of the chapel is linked to the Morton family, potters at Salendine Nook since the late 16th century. Following the Toleration Act of 1689, a Morton registered a house as a place of Protestant Dissent. The site was first used for worship in 1739, and the chapel was formally organized as an Independent Baptist Chapel in 1743. The chapel was rebuilt in 1803 and again in 1843, with further enlargement in 1893. The churchyard contains notable tombs, including early 19th-century box tombs, and neo-classical obelisks and pillars.