Rivington Village Green Tea Room
| Rivington Village Green Tea Room | |
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 Location within the Borough of Chorley
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Rivington, Lancashire |
| Country | England |
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| Construction started | 17th century |
| Renovated | 1990 |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | cruck frame |
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Rivington Village Green Tea Room is a tea room in the UK. It adjoins Rivington Unitarian Chapel in Rivington, Lancashire, England, near Chorley and Bolton. The Unitarian Chapel may date from between the 15th and 17th centuries,[1] but more likely the 16th century. The tea room and chapel were restored in 1990 by English Heritage, a voluntary charitable trust for the preservation of English natural heritage and history. The chapel and tea room together form a Grade II* listed building.[2]
Exterior
The tea room has a stone and cruck framework. The walls are well preserved. It has a stone slate chapel roof with front colonial window housed within the steeple end.
Access to the building is available from both front and rear. All original stone gateways and fitments remain. At the Southern end of the building, a ceremonial garden serves as a backdrop for Rivington Unitarian Chapel in the mock-Tudor style. It provides along its gable, a flush mullion window at the ground floor level and similar mullion and transom window above.
Interior
The tea room is situated within the original school room that served as a working schoolhouse during the existence of James Pilkington and the Pilkington of Lancashire family. The old schoolroom is a plain structure, built of gritstone with quoins at the corners and a slate roof. The side walls have two cross-windows with rectangular glass panes. The gable walls have windows with small diamond-latticed panes. On the south side are two doorways with chamfered surrounds. Located to the north-west corner of Rivington Unitarian Chapel and within the same grounds is this same two-story wing with a tall chimney stack, once the old school house. The building is surrounded by a drystone wall and the chapel's original cast iron gates adjoining the resident graveyard.
Charitable donations
After it was protected by a foundation in the 1980s, the tea room began raising money for charitable trusts and organisations including Bolton Mountain Rescue Team, Bolton Hospice and Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary. The tea room is involved with other community events including hosting thousands of supporters and spectators of the annual Iron Man Triathlon.
