Union Street Baptist Church, Crewe

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.

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…