St Stephen’s Day and Sunday Schools Kearsley Moor

KEARSLEY MOOR, NEAR BOLTON - The new church day and Sunday-schools of St. Stephen, Kearsley Moor, are completed, and the opening ceremony took place on June 11. The old schools having become unsuited-to modem requirements, a building committee was appointed, and the design of Mr Frank R. Freeman, architect, of Bolton, was selected in competition, and he was appointed architect for the work. The new school provides accommodation for300 mixed scholars. It is a one-story building, and the plan consists of a central assembly-hall which will seat 350 persons, with three classrooms on each side for 48. and 40 scholars each, divided by movable, screens, by means of which the whale area of the hall and classrooms can. be thrown into one large room for entertainments, bazaars, etc., giving total seating accommodation for about 700 persons, and one classroom at the end of the hall has the floor raised to serve as a platform. A new infants' school is to be attached to one end of the main building, but has been deferred for the present. The cost of the present portion is about £3,800. The contractors for the work were Messrs E and S Street of Kearsley. [Building News 20 June 1913 Page 856].

Reference    Builder 20 June 1913 Page 714
Reference    Building News 20 June 1913 Page 856