Former Unitarian Chapel

The former Unitarian Chapel, also known as Gosditch Street Chapel, is a disused building located on Gosditch Street in Cirencester. Originally a Presbyterian chapel, it has been on this site since the late 17th century. The current structure was altered in 1891 and now reflects a late 19th-century style. It features a cement render with ashlar dressings and a concrete tile hipped roof, with stone and rendered stacks on the left slope.

The chapel is a single-storey building with a clerestory on the left and an internal gallery on the right. It has a five-window range, comprising five 19th-century two-light chamfered stone mullion windows with leaded lights and coloured glass at the first-floor level, and three similar windows on the ground floor. The entrance includes a pair of 19th-century four-panel doors, currently faced with plywood, topped by a leaded overlight with coloured glass in a round-headed opening. This opening has a moulded stone surround with flanking pilasters and a keystone that bears a false date of 1648, complete with a dripstone above. There is also a single-storey brick lean-to boiler house on the left side.

On the rear elevation, there are three two-light chamfered stone mullion-and-transom windows with round-headed lights, along with one similar window whose head has been cut off by the gallery, and two additional two-light chamfered stone mullion windows at the first-floor level.

Inside, the chapel features a late 19th-century staircase leading to the former west gallery, which has a bolection-moulded panelled front and is now enclosed by boarding to create two rooms behind. The interior includes late 19th-century stained softwood fittings such as pews and dado-height panelling. The pulpit is located at the end, with 19th-century panelling behind it, accessed by winder steps to the right. A clock that was formerly attached to the front of the gallery and other furniture and fittings are now in the care of the Corinium Museum.