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Hope Chapel and Parson's House

1810 establishments in EnglandBuildings and structures in RochdaleGrade II* listed buildings in Greater ManchesterGrade II* listed houses in Greater ManchesterHouses completed in the 19th century
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Hope Chapel, Rochdale
Hope Chapel, Rochdale

Hope Chapel and Parson's House are adjoining Grade II* listed buildings on Hope Street and Wilson Street in central Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Built in 1810 and extended in 1848 and 1887, the complex is an outstanding example of a Nonconformist Baptist chapel and its associated minister's residence from the Georgian era. It reflects the religious, social, and architectural developments of early 19th-century Rochdale during the Industrial Revolution. Today, the buildings serve as a heritage and community centre.

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Hope Chapel and Parson's House
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OL12 0PW , Shawclough
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Rochdale Town Hall
Rochdale Town Hall

Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is "widely recognised as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country", and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The Town Hall functions as the ceremonial headquarters of Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council and houses local government departments, including the borough's civil registration office. Built in the Gothic Revival style at a cost of £160,000 (£15.9 million in 2024), it was inaugurated for the governance of the Municipal Borough of Rochdale on 27 September 1871. The architect, William Henry Crossland, was the winner of a competition held in 1864 to design a new Town Hall. It had a 240-foot (73 m) clock tower topped by a wooden spire with a gilded statue of Saint George and the Dragon, both of which were destroyed by fire on 10 April 1883, leaving the building without a spire for four years. A new 190-foot (58 m) stone clock tower and spire in the style of Manchester Town Hall was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, and erected in 1887. Architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner described the building as possessing a "rare picturesque beauty". Its stained-glass windows are credited as "the finest modern examples of their kind".The building came to the attention of Adolf Hitler, who was said to have admired it so much that he wished to ship the building, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the United Kingdom been defeated in the Second World War.