Building record 1109/10 - Hope Chapel, Hope Street

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:2500, Sht 50/5,6,9&10 1873 (Maps and Plans). SCH2429.

An independent (Congregational) chapel was erected on Hope Street in 1836, with a Sunday School and burial ground being established by 1860 and a new school being built in 1893 (1).

<2> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1159911 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Hope Chapel, Hope Street. Date 1836. Pedimented façade to north-west. Red brick, 2 tall semi-circular headed windows, central doorway in stuccoed surround with raised entablature, cornice. Plain semi-circular fanlight and 4-panelled divided door, tablet within gable, inscribed 1836. Side to street has 3 windows and doorway with plain elliptical tympanum

<3> 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 123 (Book). SCH4548.

Built for a congregation founded in 1807. Monuments include;
[1] Rev. William Sylvester, 1846, Table Tomb;
[2] Rev. William Rhodes, 21 Years Minister, 1870, and Margaret his Wife, 1865, Table Tomb;
Also numerous headstones reset against boundary walls