Flowergate Old Chapel

Flowergate Old Chapel is a Unitarian church in Whitby, a town in North Yorkshire, in England.

A Presbyterian group began worshipping in Whitby in 1695, in a house on Bridge Street. In 1715, it moved to a site off Flowergate, and the congregation became Unitarian.[1] The chapel was rebuilt in 1812,[2] although a Mediaeval cellar survives. From 1888 to 1910, the chapel's minister was the social justice activist Francis Haydn Williams.[3] The building was grade II listed in 1954.[2] In 2019, the congregation raised almost £4,000 for urgent repairs.[3] Regular services ceased at the end of 2025, but the congregation stated that it would continue to celebrate solstices and equinoxes there.[4]

The chapel is built of red brick. The doorway has a round head and a glazed fanlight, there are two round-arched windows, and a smaller one above the doorway. Inside, there is a balcony, and extensive woodwork including the pulpit.[2][5]

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References

  1. ^ Miall, James C. (1868). Congregationalism in Yorkshire. London: J. Snow & Co.
  2. ^ a b c Historic England. "The Old Unitarian Chapel, Whitby (1281323)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
  3. ^ a b Perrin, Louise (7 November 2019). "Save Whitby's Hidden Chapel". The Scarborough News. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  4. ^ "Whitby Flowergate Chapel update". Yorkshire Unitarian Union. Retrieved 17 April 2026.
  5. ^ Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.

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