Building Name

Wesleyan Chapel, Swan Square, Burslem - Enlargement

Date
1870
Street
Swan Square
District/Town
Burslem
County/Country
Staffordshire, England
Work
Enlargement
Contractor
John Stringer of Sandbach

BURSLEM - The Wesleyan Chapel at Burslem is to be considerably enlarged with a view to providing proper accommodation for school-children in the gallery during divine service, and additional sittings for the general congregation. The present front of the building will be taken down and the length of the chapel increased by 16 feet, the new front being in the Corinthian style of architecture. There will be a porch, with new staircases and vestibules. The gallery over the new part will be used for the accommodation of the school children during service, and additional sittings will be added in the body of the chapel. The work is to be executed in Hollington and Grinshill stone, the shafts to the front windows being of Aberdeen granite. There will be new windows to the sides of the chapel, glazed with obscure glass with ornamental margins. Mr John Stringer of Sandbach has contracted to do the work from the designs of Mr George Woodhouse of Bolton. The total cost of alterations will be about ,3,000. The corner stones of the new portion of the chapel have been laid. [Builder 16 April 1870 Page 310]

BURSLEM Wesleyan Chapel. —Plans have been deposited, with the surveyor to the Local Board, of an intended enlargement of the Wesleyan Chapel, the architect being Mr. Woodhouse, of Bolton. The enlargement will be entirely the direction the road, and the planned stone frontage, Italian in style, will be an ornament to the town. The space to be added will be appropriated to a handsome vestibules (over which there will be a gallery), an portico, and the cost of the alteration is set down as about £2.000.[ Staffordshire Sentinel 6 November 1869 page 5]

Reference    Builder 16 April 1870 Page 310
Reference    Staffordshire Sentinel 6 November 1869 page 5
Reference    Builder 23 July 1870 - extensive note