Stockport Grammar School

NEW GRAMMAR SCHOOL. —An ecclesiastical and pretty-looking stone building, of a Gothic style of decoration, is now in the course of completion, upon tongue of rock elevated some 20 feet above the highway, at the bottom of Lancashire Hill. It is intended as a school in which the higher branches of learning may be imparted to young gentlemen residing in that part of the borough, and not intended to oppose, but rather to be accessorial to the excellent Grammar School of the Goldsmith Company on the Wellington-road, in order , that the sons of our manufacturers and tradesmen, who otherwise seek improvement boarding schools at a greater distance from this locality, may enjoy the facilities of equally useful education within the shadow of their own homes The proprietor, and indeed the originator of the scheme, we believe Mr. Coppock, and the cost will be upwards of £1,000. Competent non-resident masters will be appointed, and accommodation made for 100 scholars. The Messrs Longson, builders, succeeded in obtaining the contract for the building and broke ground in September last, the designs having been prepared by Mr. H. Bowman, the eminent architect, of Manchester, the same gentleman who designed the episcopal church for the Cemetery. The style of architecture in which the school is erected is that best suited and now usually adopted for buildings of this class, viz., the middle pointed or decorated Gothic, as it prevailed in this country at the close of the 13th century, and of which the main characteristics are the pointed arches, lofty gables, and high-pitched roofs. [Manchester Courier 14 February 1857 page 8]

Reference    Builder 7 March 1858 Page 135-136
Reference    Manchester Courier 14 February 1857 page 8