New Brunswick Chapel North Street Bury.

Foundation: Stone laid 12 June 1862

Opening: December 1864

Reference: Trustees Minute Book: Minute from Meeting held December 23rd 1862

Reference: Bury Times 14 June 1862 page 3 – foundation stone

Reference: Manchester Guardian 3 Jan 1863 (Contracts)

Reference: Bury Times 10 December 1864 page 2-3 - opening

OPENING OF BRUNSWICK NEW CHAPEL - The chapel is in the Grecian style of architecture, with Doric pilasters at the back and sides, and Corinthian pilasters in front. It is erected in the form of cross, the lower story being schoolroom 18 feet high and of the same size as the chapel. Both chapel and school are entered by four vestibules, one in each angle of the cross, each vestibule having a staircase to the gallery, and the gallery extending round the whole of the building. Each floor is lighted sixteen windows. The chapel will accommodate 1,200 persons, and is built millstone-grit dressings and Horncliffe parpoints. It is efficiently heated by hot-water pipes in the sunken aisles, and is ventilated by means of flues in the walls, and sunlights, three of which are suspended from the ceiling. The height the chapel ground floor to ceiling is 40 feet, length 100 feet, breadth 75 feet. At the end opposite to the entrance is a spacious orchestra, under which is the vestry, from which, by a flight of steps, there is access to the pulpit, which stands in front of, but somewhat below, the organ gallery. The pulpit, or rather platform, is of very tasteful design, supported in front by six pillars, and is both roomy and comfortable. The various works have been executed by the following:— Carpenters and masons' work, Mr. James Roberts, of Rawtenstall, and (lower portion) Mr. James Hill, of Bury; plumbing, glazing, heating, and gas-fitting, Mr. T, Cornall, Bury ; plastering and painting, Mr. R. Edmondson, Bury.  [Bury Times 10 December 1864 page 2-3]