Arley Chapel

Arley Chapel is a Congregational chapel, now serving as a Polish Roman Catholic church, built in 1855 by Foster and Wood. The structure is made of coursed Pennant rubble with limestone dressings, topped by a slate roof and a leaded dome. It has an apsidal cruciform plan and is designed in the Italianate style.

The west front features a segmentally-curved portico supported by Corinthian columns, which frame an entablature with a dentil cornice. Between the columns are semicircular arches with volute keys on square responds, leading up to curved Pennant steps. The pedimented west gable is adorned with clasping rusticated pilaster strips, and beneath the portico is a doorway with a moulded architrave and a panelled door, flanked by narrow windows. Above the portico, there is a dentil pediment with an oculus containing four round lights. At the top of the building, a square tower supports a large domed cupola, featuring chamfered corners and three narrow louvred arches on each face. The cornice is raised over clock faces on each side, topped by a cyma dome with a finial.

The entablature of the portico extends on pilasters for one quadrant bay on each side to the aisles, with an arch between the pilasters containing a shoulder-arch doorway below two semicircular-arched windows. The north transept gable has rusticated pilasters and a Doric Venetian window, with the central arch breaking the cornice of the pediment. Below this window, there are brackets on a sill band that runs along the six-bay north aisle, which features stilted semicircular-arched windows with plain architraves and moulded imposts, along with a narrow clerestory of linked round windows. The south elevation mirrors the north.

A two-storey annex at the east end has a three-window range of semicircular-arched windows, a pronounced impost band, and clasping pilasters.