Aenon Baptist Chapel White Lion Street Burnley

BURNLEY - Aenon chapel was opened on Good Friday, and is thus particularised by the Preston Guardian: "The foundation stone was laid on 25 December 1850, and the edifice has gradually risen under the superintendence of Mr J Green, architect. Mr R Smith was the mason; Mr Parker, joiner; Messrs J Radcliffe and Son, plasterers; and Mr H Berry, glazier. The principal front of the building is in White Lion Street, is in the Italian palatial style of architecture, and consists of projecting centre, triple circular-headed windows, pick dressed, frosted and channelled rustics, moulded string course, central window over, the whole enriched with Corinthian columns, pilasters, and projecting balconies. Each of the front doors is approached by a large broad flight of steps, and is arched with polished channelled rustics and moulded key-stones. The whole front is surmounted with a bold cornice, supported on blocks. The sides are built in a plain style. Under the chapel is a school-room, with vestries or classrooms. The cost of the building will be about 2,700: it will accommodate about 1,000 persons, and may be said to be the first chapel built in the town by the General Baptists of Burnley. The warming of the building is on a new and scientific principal, for whilst it heats, it at the same time ventilates it. No matter how large the edifice may be, it will on this principal be warmed in two hours, whilst half the fuel used in the ordinary apparatus will not be consumed. This invention (for invention we are informed it is), has been the result of the patient study of our townsman Mr Thomas Atkinson, whitesmith."

Reference           Builder 24 April 1852 Page 264