Beswick Street Methodist Free Church Ancoats

The memorial stones of a new chapel and Sunday school for the Beswick Street Methodist Free Church Ancoats, were laid on Saturday afternoon last. .... The new chapel is being built on the site of the old chapel, situate at the junction of Beswick Street and Bradford Road. The new premises will include a schoolroom 41 feet by 30 feet, with three classrooms, a chapel accommodating 210 hearers, with minister’s vestry and a lecture room. The outside walls will be faced with Ryder’s best red bricks and Yorkshire stone dressings; the internal woodwork will be of varnished pitch-pine, and the chapel windows glazed with coloured lead lights. The building, which is being carried out by Mr Henry Matthews, builder of Ardwick, under the supervision of Mr Frederick W Dixon, architect, of Cross Street, will cost about £1,300. [Manchester Guardian 3 October 1893 page 9]

Reference           Manchester Guardian 3 October 1893 page 9