St. Augustine’s Church and Vicarage Brinksway Cheadle Heath Stockport

Cost approx. £5785, including furnishings . Accommodation for about 530 persons, all sittings being free. Consecration - Saturday 8 April 1893 by the Bishop of Chester

A drawing of the exterior was also exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1892 (ref 1726). The Builder commented on the drawing:  A pleasing design for a small country church with a little bell turret with a timber upper stage, which is picturesque but looks out of scale with the rest of the building i.e. too small in scale and parts it looks as if it had been designed to half the scale of the rest of the drawing. The drawing is apparently a very good one, hung too high to be properly seen.

Reference    Builder 28 May 1892 Page 414
Reference    Building News 20 May 1892 page  with illustration
Reference    Manchester Courier Monday 10 April 1893 Page – consecration
Reference    Manchester Guardian 10 April 1893 page 8 - consecration