Wesleyan Chapel, Market Place, Ramsbottom

TO BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS - Parties desirous of Tendering for the whole or any of the several Works required in the ERECTION OF A NEW WESLEYAN CHAPEL, Ramsbottom, may see the Drawings and Specifications at the Vestry of the present Chapel from Thursday the 26th instant. Tenders. Endorsed "Tender for Chapel" must be sent to my Office, 5. Grimshaw Street, Burnley, on or before Monday, the 6th of January 1873. Bills of quantities can be obtained on application at the above Ottice. The lowest or any Tender not necessarily accepted. WILLIAM WADDINGTON, Architect. Burnley 11 December 1872. [Bury Times - Saturday 14 December 1872 page 4]

NEW WESLEYAN CHAPEL AT RAMSBOTTOM - Opening services were held on Thursday afternoon and evening, in the Wesleyan Chapel which has recently been erected in the Market Place, Ramsbottom. The foundation stone of the new building, which is in the Greek style of architecture, with considerable modifications, was laid on the site of the old chapel, which was built 50 years ago, and had become too small to meet the requirements of the neighbourhood. In the present chapel accommodation is provided for 800 persons, and there is a schoolroom below for 400 scholars. A commodious gallery runs round three sides of the chapel, the organ loft being at the back. Attached to the chapel are two classrooms and a vestry, and to the school five classrooms. Entrance into the chapel is obtained from the Market Place by a handsome porch leading into a vestibule, at each end of which is a staircase to the gallery and a door opening into the body of the building. The whole of the fittings, with the exception of the rostrum, are of varnished pitch pine. The rostrum is of yellow pine, painted. Great attention has been paid to render the heating and ventilation of the interior satisfactory, and, as was shown yesterday, there is nothing to complain of in the acoustic properties of the chapel. Mr. Waddington, of Burnley, is the architect. The total cost of the undertaking is, £4,430, of which about £1,400 has still to be raised. [Manchester Times Saturday 24 October 1874 page 7]

Reference    Bury Times - Saturday 14 December 1872 page 4 - contracts
Reference    Manchester Times Saturday 24 October 1874 page 7 - opening