Building Name

Former Parsonage Sylvan Grove Altrincham

Date
1899
Street
Sylvan Grove
District/Town
Altrincham
County/Country
GMCA, England
Client
Unitarian Church
Work
New Build
Status
Private house

When Dunkerley’s father died in 1898, he left £500 in his will for the building of a minister’s house for the Unitarian church on Dunham Road in Altrincham and specified that his son Frank be appointed the architect. The family contributed another £500 and the house was built the following year opposite the church at the end of Sylvan Grove. It is a substantial building and shows the influence of the Chester architect John Douglas, to whom Dunkerley had been articled. The minister now lives in a more modest house nearby, and the parsonage is let out. Pevsner offers the opinion that the large schoolhouse alongside the church could also have been designed by Dunkerley, but church documents give it a date which precedes the start of his career. [RF]

Reference           Information from Richard Fletcher 22 October 2016