Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway: from Birmingham to Liverpool and ManchesterDrake, James, active 1825
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Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway: from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester
Drake, James, active 1825
Grand Junction Railway Company (Great Britain) -- Guidebooks; Railroad travel -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks
_St. Michael’s_, Angel-street, _St. Clement’s_, Lever-street, and _St.
George’s_, St. George’s Road, have little to tempt the stranger to visit
them, for their external appearance.
_St. Matthew’s_, Camp Field, is a very handsome stone structure, in the
English style of architecture, erected in 1825; and the large area in
front gives the spectator room to see its form and proportions, unimpeded
by surrounding houses.
_St. Andrew’s_, Travis-street, London-road, is a neat Gothic structure of
stone, built in 1831.
_All Saints’_, in Grosvenor-square, Chorlton-on-Medlock, was erected in
1820: it is a stone building, standing in the midst of an enclosure, in
the centre of the Square.
_St. Saviour’s_, Plymouth Grove, Chorlton-on-Medlock, is a stone edifice,
which is intended to receive a tower at some future period.
In Salford, _Trinity Chapel_, Chapel-street, and _St. Stephen’s_, St.
Stephen’s Street, have little to interest the stranger.
_St. Phillip’s_, near the Adelphi, is a stone edifice, with a
semi-circular colonnade in front, and a circular tower and dome of
slender proportions, which have been compared to a pepper-box.
_Christ’s Church_, Acton-square, beyond the Crescent, Salford, is of
stone. Its minister, the Rev. Hugh Stowell, M.A., is one of the most
popular preachers in the town. Not a mile beyond this, is Pendleton
church,—a neat Gothic structure of stone, which from its position, is a
pleasing object from many points of view for miles round.
_St. George’s_, Hulme, is a specimen of the florid Gothic in some of its
architectural decorations.
_St. Luke’s_, Cheetham Hill, now in progress of erection, the first stone
being laid in June, 1836, is another Gothic edifice, of some pretensions.
Amongst the dissenting chapels and meeting houses, those of the
Methodists and Independents are the most prominent for their numbers and
size. The Wesleyan Methodists have about a dozen; of which, the
principal are the chapels in Oldham-street, Grosvenor-street
(Chorlton-on-Medlock); and in Irwell-street, and Gravel-lane, Salford.
The New Connexion Methodists have two; the Primitive Methodists, four;
the Independent Methodists, two; and the Methodist Association, (the
seceders under Dr. Warren,) five or six chapels in the town and suburbs.
The Independents have seven or eight large chapels; the principal ones
are, that in Mosley-street, the scene of the late Rev. Dr. McAll’s
ministerial labours; that in Grosvenor-street, in which the late Rev. Mr.
Roby once ministered; and one in Rusholme-road,—the last being the only
one of handsome exterior.
The Particular Baptists have three chapels; the Society of Friends, a
very large, neat building, with stone front, in Dickenson-street; the
Scotch Church is a neat stone edifice, opposite St. Peter’s Church, St.
Peter’s Square; the Scotch Presbyterian, or Secession Church, in
Lloyd-street and Mount-street, is a plain brick building.
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