Accrington Primitive Methodist Chapel

The building, now completed, is substantial, plain, and neat, built of stone, 14 by 13 yards outside, has rustic corners well dressed and splayed, front and sides are of rock-faced work, well bedded and jointed ; the school is under the chapel, has a boarded floor, fixed seats, with boarded backs, against the wall all round, is twelve feet high from the floor to the ceiling, is lighted by nine good windows, which can never be darkened by other buildings.

The chapel is 26 feet from the floor to the ceiling, has three windows in each side, and three in the front ; it is entered by a broad flight of steps; the doorway, which is ten feet high by five feet wide, has folding-doors, with fan light above; the aisles are entered from the vestibule by side doors with springs to the back; the walls are lined with boards a little higher than the top of the pews ; there are also two excellent lofty, large vestries, joining the back gable, the lower one for the school, and the one above it for the chapel; the front fence is a good stone wall with coping, on the top of which is strong wrought iron palisading, with wide folding-gates of wrought iron for the entrance to the chapel, and a similar gate is the medium of entrance to the school. [Rev John Mould]

Reference : Reverend John Mould - Primitive Methodist magazine March 1860 pages 173-174