Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, St John’s Street Hanley

On Monday week, the corner-stone of a Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, at Hanley, was laid by the Mayor. The new building will seat 260 persons, will be erected of brick, with stone dressings, and the cost is to be over £900. The architect is Mr R. Owens, of Liverpool, and the builder Mr. E Hammersley, of Hanley. [Building News 25 July 1873 Page 103]

WELSH PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL, HANLEY - The corner stone of this new chapel, which is situated in St. John’s Street, has been laid. The style is geometrical Gothic. The front elevation will be carried out with best red pressed brick, and Hollington stone dressings and tracery. The north-east angle will have a tower, in which the principal doorway is situated, having louvre light above, and an octagonal slated roof, with battlemented comics ; height to top of finial, 60 feet. All the windows are to be glazed with cathedral-rolled glass with coloured borders. The inside measurement is 48 feet by 30 feet, and the schoolroom is 26 by 19 feet. There will be sittings for 260 persons. The chapel will have two external entrances— one in the turret at the north-east angle, the other at the south-east—and communication internally with the schoolroom. The pulpit is to be a combination of rostrum and pulpit, of pitch pine, with perforated panels; the communion will match. The woodwork will be stained and varnished. Mr. R. Owens, of Liverpool, is the architect, and Mr. R. Hammersley, of Hanley, the contractor. [The Architect 26 July 1873 page 47]

Reference    Building News 25 July 1873 Page 103
Reference    The Architect 26 July 1873 page 47