A HISTORIC chapel will open its doors to the public for a special heritage event.
Cairo Street Chapel, located in Warrington, will welcome visitors as part of Heritage Open Days on Saturday, September 19.
Guests will have the opportunity to explore the chapel and its gardens between 10am and 4pm.
The following day, Sunday, September 20, the chapel will host its annual Academy Lecture at 3pm.
This year’s talk will be delivered by Philip Jeffs of Warrington Museum and will focus on Phillip Pearsall Carpenter, a 19th-century figure known as “The Town Nose” for his tireless efforts to expose poor living conditions in Warrington.
A spokesman for Cairo Street Chapel said: "In the 1850s, Carpenter became known as 'The Town Nose' because of his ceaseless campaign to sniff out the causes of pollution in the town and to highlight their awful cost in human lives."
The lecture will explore how Carpenter’s work brought attention to public health hazards in Warrington during the mid-1800s.
Both the open day and the lecture are free to attend and open to all.
The chapel’s involvement is part of the wider Heritage Open Days festival, which runs from September 11 to 20 and is England’s largest celebration of history and culture.
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