Building record 4447 - Congregational Church, Antrobus Street

<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 31 (Book). SCH4548.

Congregational Church with a big gabled front of three bays and paired entrances and octagonal corner tower with it's spire removed. Designed by William Sugden of Leek, 1876-7 and superseded the chapel on Mill Street (CHER 4446).

<2> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 55843 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

1876-7. Architect, William Sugden of Leek. Generally in Gothic style but with unconventional features. Stone with slate roof. Nave with east gallery. Squat octagonal north-east tower. Double portal with pointed arched doorways and linked gables. Polygonal west apse.

<3> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.299 (Book). SCH7059.

1876-7 by William Sugden of Leek. Has a large west window with rich geometrical tracery flanked by buttresses crowned with elaborate pinnacles. The gable is topped by a most unusual tabernacle sprouting a ball finial on a long stalk.