School-chapel, Woolston, near Padgate, Warrington

WOOLSTON - A new school-chapel at Woolston, near Padgate, Warrington, was opened on the 8th inst. The walls have been built with Knutsford grey brick, and the strings, weatherings, moulded jambs, mullions, sills, and heads, of red pressed brick or terracotta, from Mr. Edwards, of Ruabon. The joiners' work has been executed in pitch pine stained and varnished inside, and painted outside. The roofs are covered with Vettinhelli slates, and the ridges with red Ruabon rebated tiles. The school measures internally 46 feet by 20 feet and will accommodate over 100 children. The chancel has an oak communion rail, supported on turned oak standards let into the stone step. The floor is covered with small red church tiles. The chief roof of the schoolroom is open-timbered. The whole of the work has been carried out by Mr. Richard Beckett, contractor, of Hartford, from designs by, and under the superintendence of Mr. William Owen, Cairo-street Chambers, Warrington. [Building News 16 January 1885 page 107]