Building record 4469/0/0 - Baptist Chapel, Higher Lane

Baptist Chapel built in 1850 with walls of sandstone and a decorative slate roof. The side walls of four bays divided by stepped buttresses have two-light traceried windows. The interior has an open timber roof; a stone pulpit in the South East corner and two ranks of box-pews with doors removed are contemporary with the building. The baptistery is in a room at the E end separated from the chapel by a segmental arch closed with shutters (1).
The Ordnance Survey third edition 25inch to 1mile maps shows an attached Sunday School (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 67 (Book). SCH4548.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1909-1912, Ordnance Survey Second Revision County Series (Epoch 3) 25 inch to 1 mile - Cheshire (Maps and Plans). SCH4361.