Gas Retort House

The building is licensed for Church of England worship and known as St Luke's Gas Street.

The retort house, the place where the town gas was manufactured by heating coal in the absence of air, was built next to the canal in 1822 to replace the original Clegg plant together with a new gas holder (storage tank) and coal store.

The building was refurbished in 1998–9 by Crosby Homes (Adrian Unitt and Kevin Cooper) using Richard Johnson & Associates as architects as a non-residential office, leisure or workshop space.

[1] The adjoining land that housed the gas holders was redeveloped at the same time for exclusive apartments.

[2] The retort house was purchased by The Church of England in December 2014 as a second place of worship in the Parish of St Luke's.