Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford

Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford is in the town of Knutsford, Cheshire, England (gbmapping|SJ754784). It is a Grade I listed building.cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=476312 |title=Images of England: Brook Street Unitarian Chapel |accessdate=2007-08-04 |publisher=English Heritage]

The chapel was built in soon after the passing of the Act of Toleration 1689. It is built in red brick with a stone-flagged roof in two storeys with two external staircases. Inside is a gallery on three sides and a pulpit on a long wall. The pulpit dates from the late 17th or early 18th century and the pews from 1859.

It is the burial place of the novelist Mrs Gaskell who died in 1865, her husband William Gaskell who died in 1884 and her two daughters who died in 1908 and 1913.cite book | last =Richards | first =Raymond | title =Old Cheshire Churches | publisher =Batsford | date =1947 | location =London | pages =376–378]

It is still in use as a Unitarian chapel. [cite web |url=http://www.unitarian.org.uk/local_manchester.htm |title=The Unitarian Movement: Manchester District Association |accessdate=2007-08-04 |publisher=The Unitarian and Free Christian Churches ]

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External links

* [http://www.brookstreetchapel.org/ Brook Street Chapel official website]
* [http://www.gaskellsociety.co.uk/ The Gaskell Society]