Melbourne Court
Melbourne Court, Trinity Street, Stalybridge, SK15 2BL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261179
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Melbourne Court
- Statutory Address:
- Melbourne Court, Trinity Street, Stalybridge, SK15 2BL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261179
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Melbourne Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- Melbourne Court, Trinity Street, Stalybridge, SK15 2BL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Melbourne Court, Trinity Street, Stalybridge, SK15 2BL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Tameside (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 96331 98527
Details
This list entry was subjected to a Minor Enhancement 22 November 2024 to Update Details, Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
SJ 99 NE
4/184
STALYBRIDGE
TRINITY STREET
Melbourne Court
(Formerly listed as Former Sunday School)
G.V.
II
The Sunday School at Trinity Street was constructed in 1904-5 as part of an established Congregational Church complex built in 1859-62 and designed by the Poulton and Woodman practice, who designed five congregational churches in Lancashire and Greater Manchester. Historic mapping shows the site was previously a burial ground for an earlier independent chapel and the current building replaced a school which was probably contemporary with Poulton and Woodman's church. In 1905 the foundation stone was laid by John Frederick Cheetham (1835-1916), local mill owner, philanthropist and Liberal MP for Stalybridge. He gave £1,000 towards the cost of the building, which faces the library (NHLE: 1356492) that he had financed a few years previously. The Sunday School collaborated with the Mechanic's Institute to run adult education classes, including addresses by notable figures. The library was endowed by John Bright, a nationally important British reform politician and orator and former MP for Manchester. The building was converted into sheltered housing in the late C20.
The building is constructed of coursed rubble with sandstone dressings and has a Welsh slate roof. It is of two storeys with a first-floor hall and meeting rooms and classrooms below. The entrance and stair hall are located towards the street (east). The frontage is aligned east-west onto Trinity Street and has a 2:4:2 range with stone mullioned and transomed windows and a pedimented porch with a moulded doorway surround. To the roof is a shaped parapet and central gable with coping, kneelers and finials and there are buttresses with concave gables. The main block is taller. All the windows on the riverside elevation have mullions and transoms. Alternate window bays have gables. The south elevation is similar. There is a central cupola with louvred bellcote openings under a pediment. The interior retains its plan form and is plain, with more elaborate stairs containing turned balusters and panelled newels.
Listing NGR: SJ9633198527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358718
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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