Building Name

Church of All Souls Rochdale Road East Heywood

Date
1897 - 1898
Street
Rochdale Road East
District/Town
Heywood
County/Country
GMCA, England
Work
New Build

HEYWOOD - The new church of All Souls', Heywood, was consecrated by the Bishop of Manchester on the 30th ult. The church consists of nave and aisles, chancel, morning chapel on the south side, north transept - forming choir vestry and organ chamber - and clergy vestry. A heating cellar is provided under the north transept. The chancel terminates in an apse at its eastern end, and its roof is vaulted in brick and stone. The church is Geometric Gothic in style, and affords accommodation for 450 persons. For the time chairs will be used, but it is hoped eventually to furnish the church with oak seats. The walls are faced externally with Yorkshire parpoints, and internally with specially made narrow red bricks. The windows and other internal and external dressed stonework are of Sleathwaite stone. The roofs are of red deal, stained and varnished, and covered with green Cumberland slate, and the doors and other fittings are of English oak. The floors are of pitch‑pine wood blocks on a concrete foundation, except in the chancel and morning chapel, where black and white marble and tiles have been used. The church was designed by and built under the superintendence of the architect, Mr. Frank P. Oakley, A.R.I.B.A., of Haworth's Buildings, Manchester. The contractors for the whole of the work were Messrs. Blakeley and Wild, of Gregge‑street, Heywood. Mr. James Berry has acted as clerk of works. [Building News 8 December 1899 Page 762]

ALL SOULS’, HEYWOOD—Yesterday week the Bishop of Manchester consecrated the new Church of All Souls, Heywood. It is a very beautiful building in the Geometrical style, consisting of nave and aisles, apsidal chancel (with roof vaulted in brick and stone), morning chapel on the south side, north transept (forming choir vestry and organ chamber), and clergy vestry. The church, which was built from the designs of Mr, F. P. Oakley, A.R.I.B.A., will afford accommodation for 450 worshippers and has cost £5,500. The chancel has been erected at the sole expense of the vicar, the Rev. Rathbone Hartley, in loving memory of his mother. [Church Times 8 December 1899 page 679]

Reference    Manchester Guardian Friday 3 December 1897 Page 10 - Plans of proposed church approved by Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
Reference    Building News 4 March 1898 p328 - contracts
Reference    Building News 8 December 1899 Page 762
Reference    Church Times 8 December 1899 page 679
Reference    RIBA Drawings Collection. Heywood (Lancashire): Church of All Souls, Rochdale Road, Castleton, preliminary design & contract drawings, 1897 [PB123/4(1 8)]