Primitive Methodist Church Chapel Street Blackpool

PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH BLACKPOOL - The Building Committee of the Primitive Methodist Church, Chapel Street, Blackpool, propose to erect new premises comprising church and Sunday school, with frontages to Chapel Street and Peer Street. Competitive designs in a limited competition were invited, and a design submitted by Mr Halstead Best, 20, Clifton Street, Blackpool has been selected. [Builder 31 October 1930 Page 732]

PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH BLACKPOOL - The elevations are designed on broad modern lines, following the classic tradition. Externally the building would be faced with Accrington ANori@ red pressed bricks with white joints, relieved with cream-coloured ribbed vitreous terra-cotta dressings. Internally, hard plaster would be used to upper portions, treated architecturally, with fibrous plaster decorations and light oak woodwork and furnishings. The foundations would be of concrete, with solid basement walls, waterproofed and reinforced where necessary. Floors in main portions would be of concrete, covered with oak wood-block flooring. The roof would be of steel and timber construction and covered with Westmorland green slates. All pews and furnishings would be of light oak, finished similarly to the existing organ casings. The building would be heated on the low pressure central heating system, radiators to be of the panel type let in the walls, worked in conjunction with an approved system of ventilation. The estimated cost of the complete work is ,16,000. Mr Halsted Best FRIBA is the architect.[Builder 21 November 1930 Page 870]

Reference    Builder 31 October 1930 Page 732
Reference    Builder 21 November 1930 Page 870
Reference    Hartwell and Pevsner. Lancashire North page 149