Wesleyan School Chapel, Raby Street, Moss Side
The foundation stone of a Wesleyan School Chapel in Raby-street, Moss Side was laid on the 24th inst. The building is designed as follows: On the ground floor a porch with double entrance, spacious vestibule connected by means of an arcade with the school-room, 60 feet by 35 feet, open to the roof and furnished with an arched recess at one end containing a small platform, and a small gallery at the other. In the rear are three classrooms, passages, hoist, yard conveniences and heating apparatus cellar, and adjacent to the entrance are four classrooms and a staircase leading to the secretary’s room, gallery, etc. The internal woodwork is to be of pitch pine, stained and varnished; walling externally to consist of white headers relieved with stock bricks and stonework. Haden’s system of warming is to be adopted. The contract has been undertaken at a cost of about £3,500 by Mr W W Harrison of Greenheys from the designs of Mr John Lowe FRIBA, Manchester. [British Architect 30 November 1877 Page 263]
MANCHESTER. - A new Wesleyan chapel, situated at the corner of Heslington‑street and Raby‑street, Moss‑lane East, Moss‑side, was opened on Saturday, the 5th inst. The large room on the ground floor, which for the present will be used as a chapel, will seat 300 persons, additional accommodation for about 150 people being provided in the gallery. Adjacent to the gallery is a room intended for ladies' sewing meetings. Contiguous to the chapel .are seven class‑rooms, four being at the front, and three at the back, with yards and conveniences. Over the three class‑rooms at the rear of the chapel is a room measuring 56 feet by 22tt. On the basement is a kitchen fitted with a hoist to each of the upper floors, together with the heating apparatus. The whole of the woodwork of the chapel is pitch‑pine, stained and varnished. The roof principals are of hammer-beam construction, and tile walls and roofs are plastered. The ventilation is simple and effective. Externally the building is faced with white headers, relieved with strings of stock brick and stone dressings. The entrances to the chapel are numerous. The cost of the building will be about ,3,800. The work has been executed by Mr. Wm. W. Harrison, builder, Greenheys, from the designs and under the superintendence of the architect, Mr. John Lowe, F.I.B.A., of Manchester. [Building News 18 October 1878 page 408]
Reference British Architect 30 November 1877 Page 263
Reference The Builder 1877: 1282.
Reference British Architect 11 October 1878 Page 148
Reference Building News 18 October 1878 page 408 - opening