Wesley Hall, Dicconson Street, Wigan

WESLEY HALL, WIGAN - A new Wesley Hall has just been opened at Wigan. The new building, intended to be used for Sunday-school work, is carried out in Yorkshire stone, and is of Gothic design. It has an elevation to Dicconson-street and Standishgate. The lecture hall is capable of seating about 450; it has an open Gothic roof and large Perpendicular tracery windows at each end glazed with leaded lights, by Messrs. T. Smith & Son, Manchester. The whole of the building is heated with hot water, low pressure system, by Messrs. Saunders & Taylor, Manchester. The building contract has been in the hands of Messrs. J. Johnson & Son, Wigan. In the church a new organ has been placed, built by Messrs. Conacher & Son, Huddersfield. The church has also been re-decorated by Mr. R. Banister, Poolstock, Wigan, and fitted with electric light, along with the new portion, by Mr. J. Barton, Blackburn. The work has been carried out from designs by, and under the superintendence of, Messrs. J. B. & W. Thornley, architects, Wigan, Darwen, and Blackpool. [Builder 23 May 1903 page 539]