Upper Brook Street Chapel, Manchester

The Upper Brook Street Chapel, also known as the Unitarian Chapel, the Welsh Baptist Chapel, and later Islamic Academy, is a former chapel of historical architectural importance with an attached Sunday School, located on the east side of Upper Brook Street in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, England. Completed as a Protestant Nonconformist chapel in 1839, the building was purposed variously as a place of worship for Unitarians, Welsh Baptists, as a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, and as an Islamic mosque, before its current purpose, since 2017, as student accommodation. Designed by Sir Charles Barry as the first Gothic Revival chapel for the British Unitarians, at the very beginning of the reign of Queen Victoria, the building was listed as Grade II* on the Buildings at Risk Register, rated as "very bad", on 3 October 1974. The building is owned by Manchester City Council and was partially demolished in 2006. The Victorian Society placed the building on a list of ten most threatened buildings in England and Wales. It was restored and converted to student accommodation in 2017 by Buttress Architects.