Wesleyan Sunday Schools Castlemere Street / Boundary Street Rochdale

WESLEY NEW SUNDAY SCHOOLS, ROCHDALE. The memorial stones of the new Sunday schools at Castlemere Wesley Chapel, Rochdale, were laid recently. The building of the new premises is being carried out by Messrs Ashworth and Wolfden from the plans of Messrs Waddington & Son of Burnley. The cost of the building together with the decoration of the schools will be about £3,500. The new structure, which is of stone to harmonise with the chapel, will comprise a large schoolroom and ten classrooms or vestries. The premises will be in a T shape, the narrowest part being nearest to Castlemere Street. There will be three entrances, two by the side of the chapel and the principal one in Boundary-street. The main room will stretch to the Castlemere-street end of the building. It will have a raised rostrum at one end, and a gallery at the other, and underneath there will be two classrooms. The remainder of the smaller rooms will be grouped at the Boundary-street end of the building. Several of the vestries will be separated from the main room only by movable wooden partitions, and they will be so arranged that the may be added to the main school-room, which will then be capable of accommodating 700 persons. The building will be one storey in height.

Reference    Builder 6 June 1896 Page 496