St George's Church, Chester Road, Hulme
A typical "Commissioner" church in the Perpendicular style, but having a more extravagant crop of pinnacles and crockets than is usual. The details, the buttresses and the window tracery all seem a little hard and mechanical in their application.
NEW CHURCH AT HULME, MANCHESTER- Builders who are disposed to contract for the ERECTION of this CHURCII, or any of the several Works thereof, are informed that Plans and Specifications are to be seen on application to J0HN POOLEY, Esq. Manchester; or at my office. Sealed Tenders, with the names and residences of the parties contracting, and their sureties, endorsed thereon. must be addressed to his Majesty's Commissioners for Building New Churches, at my office, on or before the 20th of July.—His Majesty's Commissioner* reserve to themselves the power of accepting any of the tenders, without reference to the amount or the estimates, and require that they should contain a detail of prices at which their estimate is formed, and at which the parties contracting might be disposed to do any additional work of like description. FRANCIS GOODWIN 29, Francis-street, Bedford-square, London. [Manchester Guardian 9 July 1825 Page 1]
HULME CHURCH - On Thursday week the foundation stone of a church, about to be erected in Hulme by the parliamentary commissioners, was laid by the Bishop of Chester. The officers and principal inhabitants of the township walked in procession in the morning to the Collegiate Church, where they were joined by the bishop and clergy, the borough-reeve and constables, etc. and the whole formed a procession, flanked and attended in a way which, on such an occasion, appeared to us a little extraordinary, namely by dragoons with drawn swords. The cortege proceeded to the ground, where the stone was laid by his lordship with the usual formalities; a number of coins and a plate bearing the following inscription having previously been placed beneath it. - Upon a plot of land, generously given by Wilbraham Egerton Esq MP, Tatton Park, Cheshire, the first stone of this church, dedicated to St George, erected by the commissioners appointed by Parliament, was laid by the Right Reverend C J Blomfield DD, Lord Bishop of Chester, attended by Richard Holt and James Rose, constables, and Michael Holt and Paul Chappe, overseers, on Thursday the 7th of September, in the 7th year of the reign of his Majesty George the IV, MDCCCXXVI. Francis Goodwin, Architect. [Manchester Guardian 16 September 1826 page 2].
Reference Manchester Guardian 16 September 1826 page 2 - foundation stone
Reference Manchester Guardian 9 July 1825 Page 1
Reference Austin, p. 91.
Restored: 1884. J.S.Crowther. Kelly.
