Monument record 4446/0/0 - Congregational Chapel, Mill Street

Congregational Chapel built in 1790 but superseded in 1877 by the chapel in Antrobus Street [CSMR 4447/0/0]. It was sold and used as a Masonic hall and now carries this name plus a date of 1878. The walls are brown brick and the roof is slate. The front wall is gabled, of three bays, with a central doorway between blocked windows. There are three upper windows with four-centered arched heads and intersecting glazing bars. Traces of similar windows remain on the rear wall, and the side walls have two bays of flat arched windows. The Chapel was described in 1820 as being '42 feet by 36 long' (1).
Interestingly the 1875 town plan of Congleton states as the number of seats "300 sittings of which none are free" suggesting that the Chapel was either very popular or very exclusive. The plan also shows a Sunday school and a graveyard [CSMR 4445/1/0] (2).

<1> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1994, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the North of England, Cheshire Number 30 (Book). SCH4548.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1875, Metric Ten Foot Scale Town Plan of Congleton (Maps and Plans). SCH4541.