Baptist Chapel, Tenterden Street, Bury
BURY LANCS - The foundation‑stone of a Baptist chapel was laid in Tenterden‑street on Sunday. The buildings are in the 14th‑century style, and are being carried out with Haslingden Grane bricks and Greetland stone dressings to all windows, doors, quoins, and plinths. The principal front of the chapel has a large gable with central Geometrical window, and the buttresses have turret terminations. At the entrance there is a porch with a flight of stone steps. The chapel is divided into a nave 42 feet by 34 feet 6in., with transepts 52 feet 6 inches by 22 feet 6 inches: baptistery, 26 feet 6 inches: and two vestries, each 16 feet by 14 feet. The sitting accommodation provided is for 500 persons. The interior fittings will be of varnished pitch‑pine, and the floor will be laid with wood blocks. The roof will be open, and ceiled between the spars, and covered with Welsh slates. The school consists of central hall. 49 feet 8 inches by 31 feet, surrounded by classrooms each 16 feet by 14 feet, with arrangements for enlarging central hall. The interior fittings will be all of pitch pine, the floor being boarded. The architect is Mr. Thomas Nuttall, of 20, Market‑street, Bury, and the building is being erected by Mr. Charles Brierley, contractor, of Fishpool, Bury. [Building News 8 April 1898 page 508]
Reference Building News 8 April 1898 page 508