Wesleyan Chapel Stockport Road Levenshulme

WESLEYAN CHAPEL AT LEVENSHULME, NEAR MANCHESTER  —The plans of Messrs. Paull and Ayliffe have been chosen by the committee, from designs submitted by a few Manchester architects; and the building will be executed forthwith under the architects superintendence. The style is Gothic, and the front elevation will have two handsome pinnacles or turrets. A spire is not contemplated. The cost will be about £3,000. [Building News 11 December 1863 page 921]

NEW WESLEYAN CHAPEL AT LEVENSHULME. The foundation stone of a new Methodist chapel was laid yesterday afternoon, at Levenshulme, by  Mr James Heald. The site of the building an open plot of ground purchased from Mr Hilton of Manchester, situate on the right of the Stockport Road, nearly opposite the Mechanics Institute, and has a frontage of 11 feet, facing the east. The south side is bounded by a street already laid out and owing to this street not being at right angles with the boundary, there will be a considerable space at the south-east corner which has been taken advantage of by the architects in the arrangement of the tower and spire The style of the building will be English Gothic, of the geometrical period. The front gable will rise to a height of 55 feet and there will also be gables over the side windows of the aisles. At the east end of the south aisle a tower and turret will be erected, terminating in a dwarf spire, 90 feet high. The general grouping the parts promises to be very effective. The walls will be built of brick, faced with Yorkshire stone, and the groins and other tracings of Hollington stone The chapel will contain sittings for 500 on the ground floor, and 100 in an end gallery. It is not intended to provide side galleries at any time. Internally the plan of the chapel consists of a nave and aisles, divided by iron pillars and brick arches, transepts of slight projection, but which can be extended at any future time, and a recess for an organ at the rear of the pulpit; while adjoining the organ recess will be a vestry, and underneath it a chamber for the heating apparatus, which is to be fitted up by Mr Haden of Trowbridge and Manchester. …  The contract for the building has been given to a Stockport firm; the architects are Messrs. Paull and Ayliffe, Manchester. [Manchester Courier 29 April 1864 page 3]

Reference    Building News 11 December 1863 page 921
Reference    Manchester Guardian Saturday 6  February 1864. Page 7 (Contracts)
Reference    Builder 28 May 1864 Page 399
Reference    Manchester Courier 29 April 1864 page 3