Armitage United Reform Church Chapel

Armitage United Reform Church Chapel is a Congregational chapel built in 1820 by Thomas Birch, with later extensions in the 19th century. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish garden wall bond, featuring rendered dressings and a clay plain tile roof with moulded stone coping at the gable ends.

The chapel has a small plan, with an auditorium that includes a gallery over the entrance at the west end, a vestry at the east end, and a north 'aisle' that may have served as a 'squire's pew' or Sunday school. A two-storey porch at the west end was possibly added in the 1820s or 1830s, along with a later 19th-century school room located at the angle of the east vestry and north 'aisle'. The chapel is designed in the Tudor Gothic style.

On the exterior, the west front features a gabled two-storey porch with set-back buttresses and weathered set-offs. It has a large moulded oculus with a rose window and a four-centred arch doorway with a moulded label and shield stops. Behind the porch, the stepped west gable has large diagonal buttresses with weathered set-offs. The north and south sides each have two large windows with labels and pointed arch frames, along with substantial buttresses. The north 'aisle' includes a large diagonal buttress topped with gabled pinnacles. At the east end, a small vestry has a pointed arch doorway with a hood mould and a diagonal buttress with a pinnacle. The school room to the northeast features a porch on the west side with a pointed arch doorway.

Inside, the auditorium boasts a vaulted plaster ceiling supported by two exposed cambered tie-beams with arcading above. The west gallery has a panelled front on slender posts and four-centred arches. The original simple pews in the gallery remain, while the auditorium pews were replaced in the later 19th century. A polygonal pulpit is present, along with panelled double doors to the vestry featuring a four-centred arch.

The chapel was placed in trust for the Congregationalists (now the United Reformed Church) by Thomas Birch in 1831, while he retained burial rights in a private vault beneath the north 'aisle'.