Manchester and Salford Asylum for Female Penitents, Emden Place, Greenheys

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD ASYLUM FOR FEMALE PENITENTS. For some time past the building of this excellent institution (established in which is adequate to the reception of not more than twenty inmates, the present number, has been found much too small to enable the society to comply with the wishes of number of applicants, who from time to time have earnestly implored be admitted within its walls. In order to meet these demands upon it, the society, with the aid of several benevolent individuals, has recently purchased a plot of land, in Embden-place, near Greenheys, Chorlton-on-Medlock, on which new building now in progress of erection, which is to contain accommodation for about sixty inmates, exclusive the matron, etc. The building (which is from the design of Mr. Richard Lane, architect), will have a neat, plain, Grecian front, consisting of centre, with four pilasters, and two wings, the lower part ornamented with rustic work, and the whole surmounted by bold cornice and blocking, length the front is seventy feet, and its height thirty-seven feet; its dimensions seventy by rather more than seventy-seven feet. It consists of a basement or cellar floor, first floor and attic storey. The Rev. William Marsden then read the inscription on the plate of block tin, deposited under the stone:

"The first stone of this building, erected by public subscription as an Asylum for Female Penitents, was laid on the day of September, 1836, by Sir Oswald Mosley, bart., President of the institution. Richard Lane, architect; John Macfee, builder."