The Maryport Advertiser Friday, July 21, 1882 Workington Primitive Methodists

Workington Primitive Methodists

The Maryport Advertiser - Friday, July 21, 1882

THE WORKINGTON PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL. Page 1. __________________________________ On Wednesday the memorial stones of a new Primitive Methodist Chapel and School-room, at Workington, were laid by MR. G. J. SNELUS, MR. H. BOWES, DR. DOUGLAS, and MR. C. J. VALENTINE. The new building will be erected on the site of the old chapel in John-street, which had fallen into a dilapidated state. The old structure has been entirely pulled down with the exception of a small portion of the gable walls. For a long time it had been much too small for the requirements of the congregation and Sunday-school, and it was in such a dangerous condition that it became absolutely necessary to take some steps to build a new one. The old chapel was used for public worship and as a Sunday-school, but in the new building the basement will be used for the Sunday-school, and the chapel will be above it. The size of the school-room is 58 feet 6 inches by 31 feet 6 inches, and a class-room in connection with it measures 12 feet by 10 feet. The school-room will accommodate about 300 scholars, and will be fitted with folding desks. The new building is in the Gothic style of architecture, with four ornamental buttresses, well relieved with mouldings and carved capitals, with ornamental stone finials. The windows in front are all double mullioned, with a very handsome relieved tracery window in the centre of the gable. All the windows are two and three light windows, fitted with ornamental stained glass, relieved on the sides with ruby borders and light bands of other colours. The interior will be very effectively lighted, the windows being 18 in number. The seats on the floor of the chapel will be arranged to accommodate about 535 persons, and those in the gallery, ocupying two sides and one end, about 100. The approaches to the gallery are to be by two flights of stone stairs leading from the entrance porch, which is to be paved with encaustic tiles of a neat pattern. The pulpit and seats will be of pitch-pine wood, and the roof will be supported by four open-timbered principals, relieved with scroll work underneath, and resting on stone carved capitals. On a level with the pulpit floor will be a vestry fitted up with a lavatory for the use of the minister. The cost of the building is estimated at about £1,700. The architect is MR. W. G. SCOTT, of Workington, who has been remarkably effective both in attractiveness of design and completeness of arrangement. Certainly MR. SCOTT has utilized the space at his disposal to the greatest possible advantage; and when completed the new building will be both a credit to him and a pleasing improvement to the neighbourhood in which it is situate. It is expected that the building, which is already up to the chapel floor level, will be completed by the end of October. The contract for the masonry is in the hands of MR. LAUNCELOT FERGUSON; for joinery and carpenters' work, MR. FOX; for slating, MR. WHITFIELD; for plumbing and glazing, MR. W. STRATHERN, of Whitehaven; for plastering, MR. H. G. YOUNG; and for painting and varnishing, MR. J. CARMICHAEL. By three o'clock, the time announced for the ceremony to begin, a large crowd had assembled, and the street in front of the site was nearly blocked up. ~~~~~The Memorial Stone Laying report will continue............

 

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