Building Name

New Schools in connection with St Mary's Church. Greenfield

Date
1883 - 1884
District/Town
Greenfield, Oldham
County/Country
GMCA, England
Client
Richard Buckley
Work
New build
Contractor
James Bourne and Hewkin Brothers

Mr Marshall Robinson, architect, of Acresfield, Bolton, has been instructed to prepare designs for new schools for the Church of St Mary, Greenfield, Yorkshire.[British Architect 11 May 1883].

GREENFIELD (YORKSHIRE) - The old school in connexion with St. Mary’s Church, Greenfield, having become inadequate to the requirements of the parish, new schools are in course of erection for the accommodation of 340 children, at a total cost of £2,200. Mr. M. Robinson, of 19, Acresfield, Bolton, is the architect; and Mr James Bourne and Messrs Hewkin Brothers, both of Greenfield, are the contractors for the stonework and the remainder of the trades respectively. [Builder 6 October 1883 page 470]

ST. MARY'S SCHOOLS, GREENFIELD. Our view illustrates new day and Sunday schools recently erected at a cost of £2,000, from the designs of Mr. M. Robinson, architect, of Bolton-le-Moors. On June 28th last, they were formally presented to the Parish of St. Mary, Greenfield, Yorks (Rev. John Cheetham, by the representatives of the donor, the late Richard Buckley, Esq., patron of the living, and afterwards inaugurated for educational and religious teaching by the Rev. Canon Venables, Vicar of Great Yarmouth. [British Architect 25 July 1884 page 43]

Reference    British Architect 11 May 1883 Page 238
Reference    British Architect 21 September 1883 Page 141
Reference    Builder 6 October 1883 page 470
Reference    British Architect 25 July 1884 page 43