Flowergate Old Chapel
Chapel in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England
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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]