Wesleyan Chapel Edge Lane Stretford

STRETFORD - The foundation-stone of a new Wesleyan chapel has been laid at Stretford, Lancashire. The new chapel will be capable, when completed, of seating 820 adults, the estimated cost of the part of the work now in progress being £2,500- £3,000. The architect is Mr. Henry Fuller, of Manchester. The chapel will be built in the Gothic style of architecture. From the position of the site access to the building may be obtained on either of two levels, one 13 feet above the other. Taking advantage of this, the chapel will be approached by a few steps from Edge-lane; and a school-room, 11 feet in height, will be placed on the basement, and entered from the back-road. The principal entrance will be in the eastern front, which will be set back from Edge-lane about 13 yards; so as to provide a court for the use of the congregation in assembling and dispersing. Admission to the interior will be through a porch placed in the centre of the court, with staircases right and left of it, for the galleries hereafter to be erected at the front end and the two sides and in the transepts near the western end. The north-eastern staircase will be in a small tower at that angle, which will support a spire, 82 feet high. The dressings to windows, buttresses, and tower will be of Hollington stone: the walls of the main building will be faced on three sides with Yorkshire parpoint [Builder 17 August 1861 Page 569].

Reference    Manchester Guardian Saturday 29 June 1861 Page 2 (Contracts)
Reference    Manchester Guardian Saturday 6 July 1861 Page 2 (Contracts)
Reference    Builder 17 August 1861 Page 569 - laying foundation stone