An event being organised by the Agecroft Heritage Restoration Group this Saturday will try to raise attention to a campaign to restore the dilapidated Anglican Chapel and bring it back into public use.
According to the heritage groups website, the chapel located in Salford’s Agecroft Cemetery is just one of a group of coordinated buildings designed by the Manchester architects Walter Sharp and Frederick Foster.
The range of buildings also include the lodge, cemetery office, former non-conformist chapel (now the crematorium), imposing entrance gateway and perimeter walls. In addition there was a Roman Catholic chapel to the south of the cemetery which was demolished.
The Anglican Mortuary chapel was opened in 1903 by Manchester’s Bishop James Moorhouse.
Designed as the centrepiece of the cemetery it is a remarkable building of considerable height, grandeur and robust construction.
The importance of the chapel is reflected in its Grade II status and its unique design; a mixture of gothic, arts and crafts and art nouveau influences. For these reasons it must not be lost.
Detailed information on the Chapel including the listing criteria can be found at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1067513
Events on the day will feature, guided tours of the cemetery and crematorium, history talks, local choir performances, a children's trail with prizes, refreshments and comment on the future proposed uses for the chapel.
Since 2015 the group has undertaken work to clean up what used to be an overgrown wilderness, the building is now free from years of weeds and clutter. It is hoped that grant funding can be sought to help bring the much loved iconic building back into full use.
If you can get down there then please do so as the cemetery is amazingly tranquil and picturesque no matter what the weather.
For more information you can find the groups website on the following link: http://madlab22.ismysite.co.uk/campaign/
Photographs by : Chris Rendal
Edited by KARL
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