Church of St Barnabas Bolton

BOLTON.-The first portion of the new Church of St. Barnabas, Bolton, is now completed, and the consecration took place on June 10. The portion now erected consists of east end and chancel and apse, also side chapel for weekday and other services, clergy and choir vestries, and organ-chamber, also first three bays of nave and. side aisles, and basement, with heating cellar, etc. This leaves two bays of the nave and the west-end tower for' future extension when funds permit. The church has been built both inside and outside with best Accrington bricks, with brick window-arches, brick piers, and nave arcade of dignified proportions. The roof is boarded and felted and covered with tiles in various shades, and the internal roofs are barrel shape, with moulded ribs, cornices, etc in selected pitch-pine. A marble floor of suitable design has been laid to the chancel and altar pace, and also the altar pace of side-chapel and baptistery, and the aisles and passages are tiled, and floors under seats and to vestries boarded. The present portion provides seating accommodation for 300 worshippers, to be increased to 500 in the complete church. The cost of the portion now erected is about £4,500, and the completed church, with tower, will cost about £7,500. The Early English style of architecture has been adopted, and the whole of the work has been carried out from the designs, and under the supervision of Mr Frank R. Freeman, architect, Licentiate RIBA of Bolton; the contractors being Messrs J C. and F. Woods, of Bolton. [Building News 20 June 1913 Page 855-6]

Consecrated     10 June 1913 ; closed1973; declared redundant 28 May 1974 (Wyke)

Reference    Building News 20 June 1913 Page 855-6
Reference    Academy Architecture 1912 (I) Illustration page 90
Reference    Pevsner: county Lancashire: South