Primitive Methodist Church and Schools. Monk Lane York

METHODIST CHURCH, YORK. — The stone-laying ceremony of a Primitive Methodist Church in Monkgate, York, took place recently. The church will occupy a site adjoining the York Home for Nurses, Monkgate. There will be seatings for 400 on the ground floor and 375 in the gallery, making a total of 775. The church will be entered by two doorways opening into a vestibule, and the gallery will be approached by two flights of stairs in the angle towers, one of which terminates in a spire rising to a height of 75 ft. from the ground. The gallery will have circular ends. The Sunday-school premises will be in the rear, and on the ground floor will contain a lecture-room and infants'-room, each accommodating 100 persons. The assembly-hall is on the first floor and will accommodate 400 scholars There will be ten classrooms of different sizes and also ministers and choir’s vestries. Ample kitchen and lavatory provision is arranged. The front will be faced with Ruabon bricks, the dressings being of Morley stone. The total cost, exclusive of the land will be about £6,000. Mr. George Mansfield, of York, is the builder, and Mr. F. W. Dixon, of Manchester, is architect. [Builder 7 December 1901 page 517].

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Reference    British Architect 13 September 1901 Page viii - contracts
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Reference    Builder 7 December 1901 page 517