School Church Old Lane Swinton

A NEW SCHOOL CHURCH AT SWINTON - A school church is being built in the Old Lane, Swinton, of which the foundation stone was laid on Friday in the presence of a large number of people by the rector’s wife, Mrs H R Heywood, to whom a silver trowel and baywood mallet were presented. The building is designed to seat a congregation of nearly 300. It is being built of brick in two colours and covered with a steep pitched slated roof. At the eastern end a quasi-chancel is screened off, rising by four steps to the altar, above which, in the east wall is a three-light traceried window. On the south side of the chancel is the seat for the minister, and on the north a credence shelf. There is to be a porch, protecting the door in the south side, next the road, and just within this door will stand the font. Over the arched principal, which marks off internally the chancel from the nave, there will rise from the roof an open belfry for two bells covered with a four sided spirelet. The architect is Mr J M Taylor of St Ann’s Churchyard, [Manchester Guardian 12 June 1865 page 2]

Reference           Manchester Guardian 12 June 1865 page 2 - foundation stone