Wesleyan Chapel Schools, Lower Broughton

The corner-stone of new Day and Sunday-Schools in connection with the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Sussex-street Lower Broughton, Manchester, was laid on Saturday afternoon. The new schools will be two stories high and built of brick with stone facings. In the centre of the building there will be a general school-room on the first floor, 70 feet long by 37 feet wide, and an infants’ school-room of nearly the same dimensions on the ground floor. At each end there will be class-rooms, amounting altogether to about fifteen in number. The design also includes a chapel-keeper’s house etc. The schools will accommodate about 1000 children. The total cost will be £3,500. The architect is Mr Thompson Raw, John Dalton-street, and the builder Mr James McFarlane, Rochdale-road, Manchester. [Building News 4 April 1873 Page 404].

Reference           Building News 4 April 1873 Page 404