Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester

Upper Brook Street Chapel
The chapel in 2017
Religion
AffiliationUnitarian, then Baptist, then Jehovah's Witness, then Islamic
DistrictChorlton-on-Medlock
Location
LocationUpper Brook Street, Manchester, England
Geographic coordinates53°28′9.44″N 2°13′53.28″W / 53.4692889°N 2.2314667°W / 53.4692889; -2.2314667
Architecture
Architect(s)Sir Charles Barry
StyleNeogothic
Groundbreaking1837
Completed1839

The Upper Brook Street Chapel, also known as the Islamic Academy, the Unitarian Chapel and the Welsh Baptist Chapel, is a former chapel with an attached Sunday School on the east side of Upper Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Greater Manchester, England. It is said to be the first neogothic Nonconformist chapel, having been constructed for the British Unitarians between 1837 and 1839, at the very beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria. It was designed by Sir Charles Barry, later architect of the Palace of Westminster.

A listed building since 3 October 1974 (currently Grade II*), it is owned by Manchester City Council and was on the Buildings at Risk Register, rated as "very bad". It was partially demolished in 2006. The Victorian Society placed the building on a list of ten most threatened buildings in England and Wales. It was restored and converted to student accommodation in 2017 by Buttress Architects.


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