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The Old Chapel

The Old Chapel M4C is based in a beautiful old chapel in the centre of Macclesfield Cemetery. It may seem an odd place to have an office - actually, let me rephrase that - it is an odd place to have an office, but we love it.

It is peaceful (although less so than you would imagine), green and full of wildlife. All that said, it is creepy walking to the cemetery gates on a dark winter's evening.

The Old Chapel (or Gothic Chapel as it is also known) was the Church of England Chapel for the cemetery and apparently there was once a Roman Catholic Chapel in the cemetery too. It was built in the 1860s (the cemetery itself was opened in 1866) and we think it may have been designed by one of the Pugins (Augustus or his son E.W Pugin) who were famous for their Neo-Gothic style.

When the chapel stopped being used for services, we presume about the time the modern crematorium was built in the 1960s, it was used for storage and fell into disrepair.

After being left for more that 20 years the chapel started to be used for business purposes in the 1990s. A mailshot was sent out to all clergy in the area asking if anyone had use for the chapel and was received by Taffy Davies, who happened to be living at the vicarage attached to St Peter's church at the time. Taffy and Really Animated Productions took it on, initially as an animation studio before renovating the building and turning it into offices.

Various and varied companies have been based in the chapel, from animators and software developers to the current residents which, in addition to M4C, include Honnete Support Services.