Episcopal Chapel Borough Cemetery Stockport

STOCKPORT - The Borough Cemetery directors, having retained the services of Mr Henry Bowman of Manchester, architect, to prepare a plan for the episcopal chapel for the cemetery, one has been selected and approved and placed at the overseers' office for public inspection. The building is an oblong 46 feet long and 18 feet wide, measured internally, with a high pitched roof running unbroken end to end. It will stand with its length nearly east to west. The end facing the west is flanked by two buttresses and contains the principal entrance doorway; above which, partly in the gable, is a wheel window under a pointed arch. This frint is terminated at the top by a small bell gable consisting simply of an arched opening for a bell, covered by a high pitched gable, from the apex of which rises an ornamental cross finial of iron and copper gilt. In the easterly elevation (which has a buttress on the south similar to those at the west end, the corresponding point on the north being occupied by the wall of the vestry) the chief feature is the large east window of four lights, the head being filled with tracery of circles and cinqfoils. On the south side, which will face the road, the elevation will contain merely four single light windows resting on a moulded string course and each having in its head a trefoil. The north side will be of similar character to the south. It is proposed to face the whole of the building with wall stone; and the angles and buttresses and wall and door openings will be executed in stone ashlar. The roof will be covered in blue slate and the ridge ornamented with crested tiles. The building will be warmed by hot water pipes. [Builder 22 March 1856 page 164]

Reference    Builder 22 March 1856 page 164
Reference    Builder 12 April 1856 page 208