Independent Chapel and Schools Longsight

OPENING OF THE NEW INDEPENDENT CHAPEL AT LONGSIGHT – A new independent chapel with schools has just been completed in Longsight, nearly opposite the eastern entrance to Victoria Park. The chapel is a large and important one. It has been built wholly of stone, from designs by Messrs Travis and Mangnall, architects, of this city; and it is in the Early English style. It is 90 feet long by 50 feet 6 inches wide, and has transepts 20 feet by 13 feet. The front consists of an arcade of three lofty arches, 26 feet high, flanked by two handsome pinnacles, each 75 feet high. The interior is an arcade of six arches, supporting a clerestory - a somewhat unusual feature in dissenting chapels. There are four three-light windows in each side wall; a gallery the width of the building at the entrance end, and a commodious organ gallery opposite. The building is calculated to accommodate from 700 to 800 persons; and it has cost about £5,000. The opening services were held on Wednesday last. … The schools, are built in a style corresponding with that of the chapel, and divided into six classrooms and a meeting room 56 feet by 24 feet 6 inches. [Manchester Guardian 22 October 1853 page 7]

Reference    Manchester Times 18 August 1852 page 1 - contracts
Reference    Manchester Guardian 22 October 1853 page 7 – opening