Building Name

Methodist New Connexion Chapel, Hooley Hill

Date
1857
District/Town
Hooley Hill, Ashton-under-Lyne
County/Country
GMCA, England
Work
New Build

LAYING THE FOUNDATION-STONE OF A CHAPEL AT HOOLEY HILL. On Saturday, the foundation-stone of a new chapel for the use of the Methodist New Connexion body, was laid at Hooley Hill, a small village about a mile and a half from Ashton-under-Lyne, and adjoining Guide Bridge. The inhabitants (about 1,200 or 1,300) are chiefly employed in the cotton mills. The village has no mechanics’ institution, but there reading-room in the school-room underneath the New Connexion Chapel, but it is not very numerously attended. The present chapel (used also as the school) is a plain brick building, and, though large enough, the congregation worshipping in it seem desirous of having one more suitable for public worship, and one which, when completed, will really an ornament to the village. The new site is only a few yards distant from the old one, at the north-east end of the village. The building will be of the Grecian style of architecture, 20.5 yards long by 12.5 yards wide. The area will be of an oval form, and there will be a gallery on each side two pews in depth, the gallery over the vestries being for the singers and children. The large vestry will be 8.5 yards long by 3.5 yards wide, and the minister's vestry 3.5 yards long by 3 yards wide. The external part will built of patent bricks; the front will have stone dressings and quoins at each angle. The ceiling will be coved of rather a novel construction, in order to secure perfect ventilation, and will be 9.5 yards high. The supposed cost of the erection is about £1,200, which will raised by subscriptions. The architect is Mr. Joseph Lindley, of Ashton-under-Lyne.  [Ashton Weekly Reporter 20 May 1857 page 2]

Reference           Ashton Weekly Reporter 20 May 1857 page 2