OS grid reference SJ 706 551 Denomination Baptist Opened 1884 Architectural type Church Groundbreaking 1882 | Country England Functional status Active Phone +44 1270 589075 Designated as world heritage site 10 March 1999 | |
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Location Union Street, Crewe, Cheshire Website Union Street Baptist Church Address Union St, Crewe CW2 7DJ, UK Similar St Luke's Church - Oakhanger, All Saints Church - Scholar G, St Nicholas' Chapel, St Catherine's Church, St Mark's Church - Antrobus | ||
Union Street Baptist Church is in Union Street, Crewe, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. In addition to the church, the attached vestry, meeting rooms and offices, boundary wall and railing are included in the listing.
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History
The church was built between 1882 and 1884 to a design by J. Wallis Chapman. It was built to serve the railway workers in the town.
Architecture
Constructed in brick, the church has ashlar dressings and a tiled roof. It contains features from many architectural styles, with Gothic predominating. The church is rectangular in five-bays, with the vestry and meeting room at the east end forming a T-plan. At the west end is a doorway with a pointed arch, flanked by single lancet windows. Above these is a round window containing Decorated tracery. To the right of this is a three-stage stair turret, surmounted by a timber-framed octagonal lantern. To the left is another, lower, stair turret, the upper stage of which has continuous glazing under a hipped roof. Along the sides, each bay contains two lancet windows with a flat-headed three-light window above. Inside the church is a gallery on all sides carried on cast iron columns. At the front of the church is a raised platform over a tiled baptistry. All the windows contain patterned stained glass. The two-manual pipe organ is housed in the gallery. It was installed in 1922, and made by Ernest Wadsworth of Manchester.