Baptist Chapel and Schools Manchester Road Bury

BURY, LANCASHIRE - A new chapel and Sunday school are about to be built for the Baptist congregation who have for many years worshipped in Knowsley-street, Bury. The architect for the building is Mr. Thomas Nuttall, of 20, Market Street, Bury, and the contract for the building has been let to Mr. C. Brierley, of Fishpool. The chapel and school will be situated on a corner site in Manchester-road and Knowsley-street. The buildings will be Gothic in style, and constructed of bricks, with red pressed brick facings and dressings of Greetland stone. The flooring will be of pitch-pine wood block, laid to pattern; and the bench-end seats, rostrum, and the roofs will be of the same wood. The interior will be plastered. Accommodation will be provided for 372 persons. In the school and classrooms the accommodation will suffice for 300 children, and in addition there will be a room to accommodate 50 infants. The school and class-rooms will be lined with facing bricks. Four of the classrooms will be divided from the main body of the schoolroom by patent glazed screens, and the smaller rooms can at any moment be thrown open to the schoolroom, so as to form one large room. The heating will be so arranged that the school and chapel can be warmed either together or separately. The estimated cost will be £4,000. [Building News 5 February 1897 page 200]

Reference    Builder 19 December 1896 page 528 (Contracts)
Reference    British Architect 1 January 1897 Page 
Reference    Builder 2 January 1897 page 26 – contracts
Reference    Building News 8 January 1897 page 80 – contracts
Reference    Building News 5 February 1897 page 200
Reference    The Builders Journal 3 February 1897 page 414