The Ridgeways Endowed School Bolton

BOLTON - A new Church school is to be erected on land near the junction of Radcliffe Road with Bury New Road. Accommodation will be provided for 364 scholars — viz., in the mixed department and four class-rooms, 210; and in the infants' department 154. The school will be built in Queen Anne style, of brick, with terra-cotta facings and ornamentations. The architects are Mr. W. H. Powell, of London, and Mr. Simpson, Acresfield, Bolton, and their estimate of the cost is £3,000. [The Architect 5 May 1883 page 313]

These schools have recently been erected at Haulgh, Bolton by the Governors of the Ridgeway Trust on a plot of land fronting the highway to Bury given by the Earl of Bradford. They are designed to accommodate 364 children. The buildings are of local pressed bricks with Yorkshire stone dressings and the roofs are tiled with Legge and Company’s Staffordshire red tiles. The contract has been carried out by Messrs J N and G Marsden, builders, Bolton, from the designs and under the superintendence of the joint architects. [British Architect 24 April 1885 Page 198]

Joint Architects    W H Powell Mocklenburgh Square London WC and J Simpson 4 Acres Field Bolton

Reference        The Architect 5 May 1883 page 313
Reference        British Architect 24 April 1885 Page 198 and illustration
Image             P1274 British Architect April 1885
Archive           Bolton ZHCA/4.  Approx 18 drawings.