Unitarian Chapel

The Unitarian Chapel, built in 1725, is located on High Street within spacious grounds. The original chapel is a single-storey, rectangular building with a hipped roof and faces west. It is constructed of red brick, rendered on the north, west and south elevations, with limestone dressings and a slate roof. A stone plinth runs along the north, west and south elevations. The main entrance is centrally positioned on the west elevation, within a Jacobean Revival ashlar limestone porch featuring a pediment, entablature, and round-arched doorway with a keystone. Flanking the porch are two round-arched stone windows with later Gothic Revival tracery, topped with a moulded cornice and a pediment bearing an orb finial. The north and south elevations mirror the west elevation in design, each containing two round-arched windows with matching Gothic Revival tracery. The rear (east) elevation of the original chapel is largely hidden by a 19th-century brick extension that spans the width of the original building, partially obscuring two round-arched windows. A ridge chimney stack rises from the gable end wall of the 19th-century extension. A further early 20th-century extension, constructed of orange-red brick with a pitched roof and rendered on its south and west sides, adjoins the 19th-century extension to the south. This later extension features a doorway and a casement window with leaded lights on its west elevation, and a blocked window on the south. The chapel's interior includes a moulded band and cornice, two central wooden Doric piers, renewed plaster bosses on the ceiling, and painted decoration on the north wall. Original fittings consist of an oak corner pulpit, communion table, and plain benches. A wooden war memorial board, dating from around 1920, is also present.