Brook Street Chapel, Knutsford

Brook Street Chapel is an active Unitarian and Free Christian place of worship in the town of Knutsford, Cheshire.^[1] It was built soon after the passage into law of the Toleration Act 1688,^[2] and is a Grade I listed buildingStructure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection..^[3]

The two-storey chapel is built in red brick with a stone-flagged roof and 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.^[3]

The novelist Mrs Gaskell (1810–1865) attended the chapel as a child, and is buried in the churchyard,^[3] as is her husband, the Unitarian minister William Gaskell, who died in 1884. The Gaskell’s two unmarried daughters, who died in 1908 and 1913 respectively, are also buried in the churchyard.^[2]