Infants’ School Ann Street, Rochdale

INAUGURATION OF THE NEW INFANT SCHOOL - Tthe inauguration of the New Infant School, in Ann-street, a building which we now proceed to describe, took place on Saturday. The edifice, the planning and construction of which, are creditable alike to Mr. David Russell, the architect, Mr. Abraham Grindrod, the mason, and Messrs Ellenthorpe and Riley, the joiners, is 91 feet long. The external walls are of Yorkshire pierpoont stone, having a lining of brick. The height the walls from the flooring the eaves, is 15 feet. The style is plain gothic, with a bold fronting gable at each end. The building is internally divided into three rooms, and a lobby, into which all the rooms open. Two of the rooms are comparatively small, though amply large enough for the purposes to which they will be devoted, one being intended for committee or class-room, the other for a washing room, where also cloaks, etc. are to be hung. The principal, or school, room measures 69 feet 27. It has open timbered roof, and lighted from the back by three dormer lights in the roof; at the end by a large gothic window, with ornamental tracery, and in the front by four gothic windows, three being plain, the other similar to that at the end. A piece of ground 35 yards by 13 in front of the building is enclosed by a low stone wall for a playground. [Rochdale Observer 21 August 1858 page 2]

Reference           Rochdale Observer 21 August 1858 page 2