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English: The Old Bell Chapel [...] was erected by public subscription in 1806 as a chapel of ease to Bradford Parish Church, which is recorded on a plaque on the northern gable end. At the apex of this gable is a large circular ashlar panel inscribed Joseph Beanland, John Blamires – Churchwardens and dated 1808. This panel was intended for a clock, but one was never added. The chapel was built without a tower as the ground below the site had been mined and a tower would have been prone to subsidence or collapse. The Old Bell Chapel was used as an Anglican place of worship from its construction until the building of the Parish Church of St John the Evangelist in 1871, although this function was reprised during 1956-8 following a fire which gutted the church. The Old Bell Chapel narrowly avoided being quarried for stone to construct a boundary wall to the Parish Church and from 1875 was used as an infants’ day school. The main block of the Old Bell Chapel is very simple in shape and its large mass and restrained detailing mean that it looks more like a mill or a giant barn than a place of worship. The longer sides consist of five well spaced bays of windows which are tall at ground floor level and are squat and almost square at first floor level. The floors are separated by a plat band which is broken at the southern gable end by a large Venetian window with radial glazing to the head of the central light. A projecting band across this gable end forms a simple pediment, another Classical motif. The stone roof is coped and dentil blocks carry the gutter with an eaves band below. The principal entrance to the building was originally at the northern gable end where there is a cornice hood on scrolled consoles over the former main doorway.