St Mary’s Schools Drayton Street, Hulme
ST MARY’S SCHOOL, HULME, MANCHESTER - The foundation-stone of this school was laid on the 6th inst. The school will have accommodation for 131 scholars. The building consists of a school-room 36 feet by 19 feet 6 inches, and two class-rooms, each 18 feet by 14 feet, also lavatory and cloakroom etc. The elevations have a hipped gable to the classrooms and a hipped gablet over the centre bay, the windows in both these rising higher than the others. All the windows have arched heads; and buttresses divide the elevation into bays. The principal elevation has a hipped gable, from the centre of which rises an ornamental chimney-stack having an inscription stone in the centre of gable. The whole of the walls are faced externally with white header bricks, with arches, string courses, and other dressings of stock bricks. The interior is of selected bricks. The rooms are warmed by open fire-places, and the alternate windows have part opening for the admission of fresh air, while the vitiated air has its exit through openings in the ridge, the roofs being a high pitch open to the apex and plastered between the principals. Mr George Napier, Hulme, is the contractor, under the superintendence of the architect, Mr John Lowe, Manchester. The total cost, including boundary walls, will be about £830. [Builder 14 June 1873 Page 465]
Reference Building News 13 June 1873 Page 688
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Reference Builder 14 June 1873 Page 465
Reference The Architect 14 June 1873 page 321