Sacred Heart Chapel, Church of the Holy Name, Oxford Road, Manchester

MANCHESTER - On the 31st ult. special services were held at the Church of the Holy Name, Oxford-street, Manchester, to celebrate the opening of the Sacred Heart Chapel, situate to the east of the high altar. The chapel contains an altar, the panel forming the front of which contains a sculptured group of the Agony in the Garden. The angle shafts of the altar are of serpentine. The super altar is richly diapered, and in the centre is to be a tabernacle, with door of repousse work, and the emblem of the Sacred Heart, encircled with the crown of thorns, and surrounded with jewels. The reredos has a lancet-shaped arch in the middle, with a standing figure of our Lord displaying His sacred heart. The altar and reredos are flanked by tall niches, in which are placed statues of St. John and St. Bernard, with sculptured pedestals, marble shafts, canopies and arcade of Painswick Stone, with richly carved diapers, foliated spandrels, and cresting of vine leaves. The whole is surmounted by a rose-window filled with painted glass. The work is in the style of the thirteenth century, from the designs of Mr. Charles A. Buckler, of Hereford Square, London, architect. The masonry and sculpture are by Mr. Boulton, of Cheltenham; the tabernacle by Messrs. Hart, Peard, & Co., London; and the glass by Mr. Pearce, of Chelsea. [Builder 27 June 1885 page 917]

Reference           Builder 27 June 1885 page 917