Trinity Baptist Church and School, Keighley Road, Colne

COLNE, LANCASHIRE — A new Baptist chapel and schools are about to be erected from the designs of Mr. George Baines, architect, Accrington, whose plans have been selected in competition with Messrs. Paull and Bonella, London and Manchester; Mr. Brearley, Liverpool; and Mr. Watson, Burnley. The buildings are estimated io cost £6,000, exclusive of movable furniture. [Building News vol 40. 29 April 1881 Page 499]

COLNE - A new Baptist chapel and schools have been opened at Colne, Lancashire. The chapel contains 760 sittings, the seats on the ground floor being arranged semi-circular, all facing the pulpit, which is of light and dark oak, with choir gallery and organ chamber behind pulpit, and gallery all round the chapel. The school contains 10 classrooms and lecture room for 150, and on upper floor a school assembly room 66ft. by 33ft., with open pitch-pine timbered roof, varnished, and end gallery. There are three vestries to the chapel in addition. The buildings are partly connected, and are faced externally with ashlar stone from Wynewall, and are in the Romanesque style, with a lofty stone pinnacle in front of chapel, and have been carried out from the designs and under the superintendence of Mr. George Baines, architect, Post Office Chambers, Accrington, whose plans were selected in a limited competition. The cost of the works has been about £8,000. [Building News 23 November 1883. page 824]

BAPTIST CHAPEL AND SCHOOL, COLNE, LANCASHIRE - These buildings have recently been opened for public worship. The chapel contains 760 sittings, the seats on the ground-floor being arranged semi-circularly, all facing the pulpit, which is of light and dark oak; with choir-gallery and organ-chamber behind pulpit, and gallery all round the chapel. The school contains ten class grooms, and lecture-room for 150; and on upper floor a school assembly-room, 66 feet by 33 feet, with open pitch-pine timbered roof, varnished, and end gallery. There are three vestries to the chapel in addition. The buildings are partly connected, and are faced externally with ashlar stone from Wynewall, and are in the Romanesque style, with a lofty stone pinnacle in front of chapel, and have been carried out from the designs and under the superintendence of Mr. George Baines, architect, Post Office Chambers, Accrington, whose plans were selected in a limited competition. The cost of the works has been about £8,000. [The Architect 1 December 1883 page 348]