Building Name

Eccles (Peel Green) Cemetery

Date
1879
Street
716 Liverpool Road
District/Town
Peel Green, Eccles
County/Country
GMCA, England
Contractor
Mr Napier, of Manchester,

CONSECRATION OF ECCLES CEMETERY- The new cemetery for Eccles at Patricroft covers 38 acres, and the land was purchased in the autumn of 1877 from the Bridgewater Trustees for a yearly rental of £300, The ground is laid out to give 1,000 graves per acre, and has been apportioned to the three religious bodies as follows: Church of England, 12,000 graves; Dissenters, 10,000; and Roman Catholics, 6,000, The remaining space for 10,000 graves has not yet been appropriated. Three chapels have been erected for the use of the several religious bodies. Each is approached by a broad carriage drive; and consists of a nave and short chancel, a coffin aisle (separated by a glazed screen from the nave), vestry, and waiting room. The average number of sittings in each chapel is 100. They are widely varied in design, and in each a bell turret forms a conspicuous feature. The materials used are brick, faced with Dunford Bridge parpoints, the dressings being of Runcorn stone. The walls are plastered inside, except in the coffin aisles. The woodwork generally is of pitch pine, stained and varnished. The chancels, coffin aisles, porches, and passages are laid with red and black Staffordshire tiles, and the windows throughout are glazed with quarries of various tints, the heads being filled in with geometrical patterns. The cost of the three chapels, lodge, and entrance gates is about £3.800. The builder, Mr Napier, of Manchester, has carried out the work from the designs of Messrs. A. H. Davies Colley, and J. W. Beaumont, the joint architects, to whom the first prize was awarded in open competition in 1877. [Manchester Times Saturday 21 June 1879 page 6]

Reference    Building News 20 June 1879 page 705
Reference    Manchester Times Saturday 21 June 1879 page 6 col 2 - consecration