Independent Chapel and Schoolrooms, Broad Street, Pendleton, Salford

PENDLETON CHAPEL AND SCHOOL ROOMS – On Monday last, 31 August, the foundation stone of a new independent chapel for the congregation at present worshipping in Charlestown Chapel, was laid by John Hewitt Esq. …. The rising edifice, which is on an eligible site adjoining Brunswick Terrace in the populous township of Pendleton, will be a handsome stone building, of Gothic outline, designed by Mr Richard Lane, after the example of the front of Whitby Abbey, a beautiful specimen of early English, delineated in “Sharp’s Abbeys of Yorkshire.” It will be 87 feet by 47 feet in exterior dimensions, with vestries behind, and school-rooms below; will have galleries in front and on each side, and organ gallery behind the pulpit, and the roof will be constructed of cast iron principals, which, by dispensing with horizontal tie beams, will give elevation and importance to the interior, the effect of which will be greatly increased by a richly-ornamented ceiling, done in plaster of Paris moulding. The entire cost of the building and fittings, exclusive of the cost of the land, will be a little short of £3,500. [Manchester Guardian 5 September 1846 page 6].

Opened by Rev Dr Raffles of Liverpool and Rev James Pearson of York on Wednesday 14 July 1847

Reference    Manchester Guardian Saturday 11 July 1846 Page 11 - contracts
Reference    Manchester Guardian 10 July 1847 Page 1 and page 6
Reference    Builder Volume iv, 1846 Page  452
Reference    Manchester Guardian 5 September 1846 page 6 – foundation stone