I have always liked the former St Matthews Sunday School that stands on Liverpool Road.
It is a simple but pleasing building which I think was paid for out of a fund created by the Government to commemorate the victory at Waterloo.
My Pevsner’s just records, “St Matthew’s Sunday School, dated 1827, converted to offices in the 1980s. Brick, two storeys, with an apsidal s end and windows with pointed arches and simple Y-tracery”.*
Given the whole sale destruction of many of the buildings along the road, it is always a surprise that it survived.
But survive it did, and this is the rear, on Rice Street.
Location; Castlefield
Picture; St Matthews Sunday School, 2022, from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*Manchester, Clare Hartwell, Pevsner Architectural Guides, Penguin Books, 2001, p269
Really like this building, most unusual. Shame that the church did not survive.
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