Building Name

Congregational School Chapel, Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton-cum Hardy

Date
1883
Street
Barlow Moor Road
District/Town
Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester
County/Country
GMCA, England
Work
New build
Contractor
Wilson Toft and Huntly,

CONGREGATIONALISM AT CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY – Recently a piece of land has been acquired at the junction of High Lane, Sandy Lane, and Barlow Moor Road, Chorlton-cum Hardy, on which it is intended ultimately to erect an chapel and school. At present it is intended only to erect a school-chapel. This will be a substantial building of grey brick, with facing, buttresses and chimneys of red stock bricks. The roof timbers and internal joiner’s work will be of stained and varnished pine. The school room will be capable of accommodating 350 persons. Classrooms and other necessary accommodation will be provided. The cost, including furniture, will be about £1,600. The works are in rapid progress, the contractors being Messrs Wilson Toft and Huntly, builders, City Road, and the architects Messrs Goldsmith Son and Welford 63 Faulkner Street. [Manchester Guardian 17 April 1883 page 8]

CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY - The memorial stone of a new Congregational school chapel, which is in course of erection in Barlow Moor-road, near the corner of Sandy-lane, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, was laid on the 14th inst. The new building, which only forms part of the scheme the building committee have drawn up, will consist externally of grey bricks with facings, buttresses, and chimneys of red stock brick, and the roof timbers, and the internal woodwork generally will be of stained and varnished pine. It has been designed to accommodate 350 people. At one end will be grouped eight class-rooms, some of them being separated from the large room only by a curtain, so that they may be used as transepts. Adjoining these there are to be committee-rooms and a vestry. The building will be heated by hot water, audit will be ventilated by inlet tubes and extracting flues, on what is known as the Tobin system. The cost of the work, including furnishing, will be about £1,600. The contractors are Messrs. Wilson, Toft, and Huntley, City-road, Manchester; the architects being Messrs. Goldsmith, Son, and Welford, Faulkner-street. [Builder 28 April 1883 page 587]

Reference    Manchester Guardian 17 April 1883 page 8 – foundation stone
Reference    Builder 28 April 1883 page 587