Pendleton Independent Chapel Sunday Schools Strawberry Road Pendleton
The schools were built on land at the rear of the Independent Chapel on Broad Street and bounded by Strawberry Road and Orange Street
PENDLETON - The foundation stone of a new school in connection with the Independent chapel has been laid. The new school, which will be from the designs of Messes Fraser and Son, of Manchester will contain twenty class rooms, with infants,= elementary, class, and lecture rooms. The style of the building will be Geometric. The entire cost of the building, including gas and hot water apparatus, will be about ,2,000. [Builder 5 November 1864 Page 817]
NEW INDEPENDENT SUNDAY SCHOOL, PENDLETON - The foundation stone of a new school in connection with the Independent Chapel at Pendleton was laid on Saturday afternoon last by Mr James Sidebottom ....... The new school, which will be erected from the designs of Messrs Fraser and Son of Manchester, will contain no less than twenty classrooms with infants= elementary class and lecture rooms. The style of the building will be geometric Gothic. Its external dimensions will be 69 feet by 64 feet, and the entrances will be from Strawberry-road. There will be a large room in the centre, 40 feet by 60 feet with an open timbered roof, and lighted by a range of clerestory windows and a handsome seven light window filled with geometric tracery, the gift of Mr H Lightbown, who is treasurer of the building fund. The classrooms on the first floor will be entered by a gallery 60 feet long by 5 feet wide. Messrs Barnes and Howe of Manchester are the contractors and the entire cost of the building, including gas and hot water apparatus, will be about ,2,000. [Manchester Courier Monday 10 October 1864 Page 3]
The new structure was entrusted to Messrs Fraser and Son, architects, Manchester and Messrs Barnes and Howe, builders, Ardwick. Its estimated cost is £2,000 of which £300 is still wanting. One side of the building will flank Orange-street. It will be in the geometric Gothic style and its measurements will be 69 feet by 64 feet. The school room which will be on the ground floor will occupy the centre of the building and will be 60 feet long and 40 feet wide. It will have a timber roof and be lighted by clerestory windows and by a large stained glass window, seven lighted and the gift of Mr H Lighbown. [Manchester Guardian Monday 10 October 1864 Page 2]
PENDLETON INDEPENDENT CHAPEL On Sunday the new Sunday schools in connection with Pendleton Independent Chapel were opened. These schools have been erected at a total cost, including furniture, of £2,200, and the building is among the most beautiful and probably the most completely adapted to its purpose of any in the district. It is erected in Strawberry Road, just behind the chapel, and is in the geometric Gothic style of architecture. A beautiful stained glass window, 25 feet by 15 feet, the gift of Mr Lightbown, adorns the front of the building. The interior consists of one large and lofty schoolroom, capable of holding 800 persons, having a gallery approached by stairs on either side. The classroom accommodation is most ample, there being twenty in all, including infant and elementary classrooms, it being intended to introduce the new feature of Sunday classes for infants. The roof of the large room is of open timber work, with apparatus for ventilating purposes, this being provided for in the most efficient manner both here and in the classrooms. The architects were Messrs Fraser and Son, and the builders Messrs Barnes and Howe of Manchester. [Manchester Weekly Times 29 July 1865 page 6]