Former Holy Innocents Day and Sunday Schools. Wilbraham Road Fallowfield

The memorial stone of a new school in connection with the Church of the Holy Innocents, at Fallowfield, Manchester, has been laid. Mr. F. H. Oldham, of John Dalton-street, Manchester, is the architect for the new building, which is Early Gothic in style. The principal front will be to Wilbraham Road, and the building will be faced with Yorkshire parpoints and Runcorn stone dressings. There will be one large schoolroom approached from the Fallowfield Road. Two large rooms are placed at each end of the schoolroom, communicating therewith and with the vestibules, so as to be useful as classrooms. These can be used as cloak and retiring rooms for ladies and gentlemen when entertainments are being given. The cost is about £3,000 and accommodation is provided for 400 children. [British Architect 5 May 1882 page 214]

The day and Sunday Schools in connection with Holy Innocents, Fallowfield were opened on Saturday evening. The foundation stone was laid on Easter Monday and in erection a sum of £3,940 has been expended, which, however, includes the cost of a new vestry to the church. Externally the schools are of pleasing design, harmonising with the church at the east end of which they are placed. [Manchester Guardian 1 January 1883 page 7]

FALLOWFIELD - New schools in connection with Holy Innocents Church, Fallowfield, were opened on Sunday week. The site of the building was given by Lord Egerton of Tatton and situate on the corner of Wilmslow Road and Wilbraham Road, and close to the church. The school building contains one large room, 73 feet by 32 feet, and four classrooms; is intended to accommodate 400 children and is to be used  both as a Sunday and day school. The contract for the works amounted to ,2850 and extra items of expenditure brought up the total cost, including an organ, to £3,940. The architect was Mr F H Oldham of Manchester, and the builder Mr James Herd. The style of architecture is Gothic, like the church. [British Architect 12 January 1883 Page 22]

FALLOWFIELD. MANCHESTER - On the 30th ult., new schools which have been erected at Fallowfield in connexion with the Church of the Holy Innocents, were formally opened. The schools, which are Early Decorated in style, stand in a conspicuous position upon the Wilmslow Road. The main room is 75 ft. in length, and 32 ft. 6 in. in width, and covered by a roof of semi-circular form, the ceiling being divided into panels. At one end of this room is a fixed dais or platform, in the rear of which is a back entrance loading to the church grounds, with two classrooms on either side, capable of being used in connection with the schoolroom. The erection of the schools has been carried out from the designs of Mr. F. II. Oldham, of John Dalton-street, Manchester, which were selected in competition. The contractor for tho whole of the works is Mr James Herd, of Ardwick. [Builder 6 January 1883 page 25]

Reference    British Architect 5 May 1882 page 214
Reference    Manchester Guardian 1 January 1883 page 7 - opening
Reference    British Architect 12 January 1883 Page 22
Reference    The Builder 6 January 1883 page 25.

Church of Holy Innocents, Fallowfield: built in 1870. Architects: Price & Linklater.
Stewart noted that the school had become a Secondary Technical School for Girls (c.1960).
Pevsner ( South Lancashire) erroneously suggested that the schools were by Price and Linklater