Description

YORK

SE6051NE ST SAVIOURGATE
1112-1/17/996 (North West side)
14/06/54 St Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel

GV II*

Formerly known as: St Saviourgate Chapel ST SAVIOURGATE.
Presbyterian chapel, now Unitarian. 1692; refenestrated,
re-roofed, refitted and vestry added 1851-60; restored
1990-91. C19 work by George Fowler Jones.
MATERIALS: orange-brown brick in stretcher bond, with brick
doorcase and dressings; timber guttering on paired modillions;
slate roofs with stone copings.
PLAN: cruciform with low crossing tower.
EXTERIOR: main entrance in south arm through panelled double
doors in raised brick surround with plain cornice, flanked by
inserted 1-pane sash windows: round-arched window in raised
surround over door. Both returns and south faces of east and
west arms have similar windows in flush surrounds, those in
flanking arms over panelled double doors with flat arches.
Windows are round-headed margin-glazed sashes. North, east and
west arms are gabled and have 2-course brick bands at eaves
level and blocked oeil-de-boeuf openings in gable ends; roof
of south arm is hipped. Crossing tower has pyramidal roof and
two blocked window openings with flat arches of brick to south
face; east and west faces have single louvred openings.
INTERIOR: largely refitted C19, with C18 octagonal pulpit.
Ceilings mostly C19, although the north room retains its
original plaster barrel vault and roof timbers above.
Monuments include many simple white marble wall tablets.
Chapel is important for its cruciform plan, and notable as the
earliest surviving nonconformist chapel in York.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 55-56).

Listing NGR: SE6062151975

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• York Unitarian Chapel at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q8055589

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