Penny’s Lane, Witton UMFC chapel was built in 1881. A reort of the stone laying stated that
“The site is on the northerly side of Penny’s Lane, and the front of the building will be 20 yards back from the lane, thus leaving a good site for a large chapel which it is proposed to build in the near future. The building will be a neat, plain structure, and will comprise a school-chapel calpable of seating 180 adults, two large vestries, and a store room, with a tea boiler and heating apparatus underneath. There will be two entrance porches, for the use of boys and girls respectively. At the rear of the site separate yards and offices will be provided for the scholars etc. All outside walls will have 3in. cavities and will be bult of brick, with Eddisbury red-stone dressings. The internal woodwork and fittings will be of the best pitch pine twice varnished. The premises will be heated by means of hot water. The inlet of fresh air and the expulsion of ventilated air will bee effecually provided for. The plans have been prepared by Mr S Hurst of the firm of Maxwell, Tuke, and Hurst, architects , Southport and the buildings will be erected under the architect’s personal supervision, Messrs Leicester Bros, joiners and builders, Northwich, are the sole contractors”
Building News 15.7.1881 pp.85-86
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Northwich Guardian Saturday 29 OCT 1881 p.5
Summary of District News.
The new school chapel in Penny’s Lane, Witton, Northwich, in connection with the United Methodist Free Churches, was opened on Tuesday. In the afternoon a sermon was preached by the Rev. J. S. Withington, of Rochdale; in the evening the same gentleman delivered a lecture entitled “Gladstone, Beaconsfield, and Bright”.
Northwich Guardian 28 MAY 1881
The Building Bylaws at Northwich.
We understand that at the meeting of the Northwich Local Board on Wednesday next, Mr Hughes will move the rescinding of the resolution passed at the last meeting authorising the affixing of the seal of the Board to a plan submitted by the trustees of the United Methodist Free Church for the erection of a school in Penny’s Lane, Witton.
Northwich Guardian 9 JUL 1881
Public Notices.
United Methodist Free Churches, Northwich. – Foundation Stone Laying. – On Tuesday, July Twelfth 1881, four Memorial Stones of the New School Chapel, in Penny’s Lane, will be laid. The ceremony to commence at 3 o’clock p.m. Addresses will be delivered by the Rev. T. M. Booth, Rochdale, and the Rev. J. Mather, Todmordon (both ex-presidents of the Annual Assembly) At 4.30 TEA will be served in a large Marquee, on Mr Slater’s grounds, Witton Lodge. Tickets 1s each. A Public Platform Meeting will be held in the tent at 6.30, to be addressed by the Rev. John Mather, Rev. T. M. Booth, Thomas Snape Esq., Liverpool, and the Circuit Ministers. George Slater, Esq., will preside. Collections in aid of the Building Fund.
This chapel was probably known later as Middlewich Road. Information from those more local to the area would be appreciated.
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