Building Name

Wesleyan Chapel Bolton Road and Epworth Street, Darwen

Date
1900
Street
Epworth Street
District/Town
Darwen
County/Country
Lancashire, England
Work
New Build
Status
Closed 1958 Demolished

A new Wesleyan Chapel has just been erected at Darwen in the Bolton Road. The new church occupies a site in front of the existing school-chapel and has a frontage to Bolton Road and Epworth Street. It consists of a nave with deep transepts and chancel with organ chamber, tower, minister’s vestry and choir vestry with the usual adjuncts. The two main entrance doors give access to a vestibule leading to the church. Above this vestibule and approached from the same is the Sunday School scholars gallery. The total seating accommodation of the church is 514 adults or 680 mixed congregation. The building is faced with Yorkshire parpoints, the dressings being of Runcorn red sandstone. The chancel and gallery have four-light tracery windows, the windows are fitted with lead lights. The joiners work in the interior is of pitch pine. The choir stalls, reredos, pulpit and font - with a basin of alabaster - and the communion table are in Dantzic oak, carved. The chapel is lit by electricity. The heating is by hot water on the low pressure system. The tower at the corner of Bolton Road and Epworth Street is open in the upper part with light tracery and is surmounted with a timber spire covered in green Westmorland slates. Those who have taken part in the erection of the church are as follows - Mr J B Thornley, architect, under whose superintendence the whole of the work has been carried out, ..... (contractors including carving by Harry Hem and Sons, Exeter) [Builder 21 April 1900 page 406]

Reference    Builder 21 April 1900 page 406