Armenian Church, Clarence Street, Upper Brook Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock

Purpose-built for the Armenian Church. Gothic, yellow sandstone

THE FIRST ARMENIAN CHURCH IN ENGLAND - The church and parsonage attached will be of Gothic design, prepared by Messrs Royle and Bennett, architects. The external elevations will be faced with York parpoints and Darley Dale stone dressings. The church will, including vestries, be 56 feet long 27 feet wide and 50 feet to the ridge. There will be a basement storey 9 feet 6 inches high under the whole of the church. The chancel will be semi-circular, with polished granite columns and richly carved capitals to the chancel arch, which will be splayed and moulded. The chancel floor will be above the church floor and its front will be panelled. There will be a vestry on each side, one of which will communicate with the parsonage. The front entrance will have a porch of neat design, octagonal in form, and *** There will be buttresses to the side elevations, and the windows will have central mullions and pointed arches. A wheel window will be placed in the west elevation fronting Clarence Street, with label moulding and carved terminals. The roof will be in one span the **rg arched, with carved brackets. The front doors and internal fittings will be of pitch pine, stained and varnished. The walls and ceiling will be coloured a soft tint. The parsonage will contain parlour, study, reception room, kitchen, four bedrooms and attic, bathrooms etc. Messrs T & H Ward, builders, of Rosamund street and Stretford are the contractors. [Manchester Guardian 18 September 1869 page 7]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 18 September 1869 page 7- foundation stones
Reference    Hartwell: Manchester Page 307