National Day and Sunday Schools, Spring Gardens, Stockport

The new schools have cost about £8,000. There are separate departments for boys, girls and infants and assembly room, the accommodation being for 600 scholars. [Building News 13 December 1901 Page 820]

NATIONAL SCHOOLS, STOCKPORT - New National day and Sunday schools have been erected at Spring Gardens, Churchgate, Stockport. The site of the present schools and the buildings at Wellington-road South, directly opposite the Stockport Infirmary, have been acquired by the Corporation with a view to the erection of a town hall and municipal buildings. The new schools will cost about £8,000. The buildings occupy an elevated site; there are separate departments for boys, girls, and infants, and an assembly-room, the accommodation being for 600 day scholars. Messrs. Stott and Sons. Manchester, are the architects, and Mr. Josiah Briggs, Stockport, builder. [Builder 28 December 1901 page 585-586]

SCHOOLS, STOCKPORT - The new schools erected at Spring-gardens, Stockport, which will accommodate 600 boys and girls in the mixed school and 220 infants in a separate infants’ school, were opened on the 5th inst. Messrs. Stott & Sons, of Manchester, are the architects of the new schools, and the builder is Mr. Josiah Briggs, Stockport. The principal room gives seating accommodation for about 1,000 persons. The building is faced with red brick, with buff terra-cotta dressings and half-timbered gables. [Builder 13 September 1902 page 234]

School opening Friday 5 September 1902.

Reference    Building News 13 December 1901 Page 820
Reference    Builder 28 December 1901 page 585-586
Reference    British Architect 12 September 1902 Page 180
Reference    Builder 13 September 1902 page 234