Baptist Sunday Schools Pendleton Manchester

NEW BAPTIST SCHOOL AND PREACHING ROOM, PENDLETON -The new Baptist school and preaching room which has been erected in Nursery Street, Pendleton, was opened on Sunday. ….  The school and preaching room has cost about £1,000, of which £500 has already been promised. It is a brick building 78 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 22 feet high, and is divided into five bays by principals, with carved ribs. At the end of the room are two vestries, and in front of the pulpit is the baptistery. The room is  lighted in the day by single lights in each bay, a double one on each side the entrance, and a rose window over the doorway, and at night by two coronae of 20 jets each. The roof is surmounted by a fiche, in order to give height to the building. Ground has been obtained close to the school on which to build a chapel at a future time. The architect is Frank Popplewell, of this city, and the builder W. J. Watts, of Miles Platting. [Manchester Times 6 June 1874]

Reference    Builder 20 December 1873 Page xii (Tenders)
Reference    Manchester Times 6 June 1874