Building record TR 15 NW 2586 - Former Unitarian Chapel, Blackfriars, Canterbury

Former Unitarian Chapel was located in the former refectory of Blackfriars Friary. It was used as an Anabaptist (later Unitarian) meeting house from 16409 until 1912. In the 1920s it was restored and in 1982 it was given to The King's School as an art gallery. The building is shown on the Tithe map (1837- 58) and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition O/S maps and the current Master map.

The remains of the Blackfriars monastery were purchased by a Huguenot surgeon, Peter de la Pierre, who permitted their use by a Baptist church. A new meeting-house and cottage were built at the south-west end of the surviving Mediaeval hall with ground to the south for a burial ground. It was closed in 1913. The walls are of brickwork with tall round-arched windows to the sides.(1)

Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 1st edition 1862-1875): Landmark Epoch 1 (Map). SKE30964.

Landmark, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 2nd Edition, 1897-1900): Landmark Epoch 2 (Unspecified Type). SKE30965.

Landmark, 1907-1923, Ordnance Survey 1:2,500 map (OS 3rd Edition, 1907-1923): Landmark Epoch 3 (Map). SKE30966.

<1> Christopher Stell, 2002, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Eastern England (Bibliographic reference). SKE58544.