Enlargement: St Stephen’s Church, Milton Street, Chorlton-on-Medlock
ST STEPHEN’S CHURCH, CHORLTON-ON-MEDLOCK - On Saturday and Sunday 22nd and 23rd March, services were held at St Stephen’s Church, Chorlton-on-Medlock on the occasion of formally opening the new chancel and new organ. The enlargement of the church has been effected at a cost (including the organ) of more than £1,100, and has been carried out under the direction of Mr John Lowe of this city, architect. The church is cruciform in plan, and has been very much improved according to our authority, the local Courier, by this addition; while free accommodation receives the entire benefit of this enlargement. There are now nearly 500 sittings appropriated to the use of the poor. The new organ, which has been built by Messrs Couacher and Company of Huddersfield, at a cost of £325, is placed in a chapel on the north side of the chancel. The case is in accordance with the architecture of the building: the front pipes are diapered. [Builder 12 April 1862 Page 264]
Reference Builder 12 April 1862 Page 264
Reference Manchester Courier 29 March 1862 Page 9 Col 1
Reference Pevsner South Lancashire