Brooklands Cemetery: Two Chapels, Porter's Lodge, Boardroom, Entrance Gates
TO ARCHITECTS - SALE BURIAL BOARD. The burial board of the township of Sale in the county of Chester are desirous of receiving PLANS, SECTIONS and ELEVATIONS and ESTIMATES for the necessary WORKS consisting of Entrance Gates, Lodge and Two Chapels and Laying out the Ground consisting of 6.5 (?) Statute acres near the Brooklands Station at Sale aforesaid. The buildings to be faced with parpoint stone and the cost of them not to exceed ,2000. The plans etc must be delivered without the author's name but with a motto, accompanied by a sealed letter containing the name, on or before the 30th instant to MR GOULD, Clerk to the board, 22, Cooper-street, Manchester, from whom all further information may be obtained.
SALE - For the erection of a fence wall, on the Sale burial ground, near Brooklands station, on the Altrincham railway. Particulars from Mr William Wilson, architect, 23 John Dalton Street, Manchester. Tenders to the Chairman of the Burial Board, Sale, Cheshire, not later than the 20th inst.[Building News 16 May 1862 p351]
NEW CEMETERY AT SALE – On Friday afternoon a new cemetery, situate near Brooklands Station, Sale, formed under the recent Burials Act and upon which two very handsome chapels have been erected, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Chester. Among the gentlemen present was Willami Wilson, architect. [Manchester Guardian 1 September 1862 page 2
SALE, NEAR MANCHESTER. - A new cemetery, situated near Brooklands Station, Sale, upon which two very handsome chapels have been erected, was recently consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Chester. [Building News 12 September 1862 p 203]
Consecration 31 August 1862
Reference Manchester Guardian Saturday 29 June 1861 Page 2 (Contracts)
Reference Manchester Courier Saturday 29 June 1861 Page (Contracts)
Reference Manchester Guardian 4 February 1862 page 1 – contracts paths and landscaping)
Reference Building News 16 May 1862 p351 – contracts for boundary walls
Reference Building News 12 September 1862 Page 203 - opening
Listed Grade II but architect given as R J McBeath