Union Baptist
Chapel - Oxford Road
Built
circa
1873
the
Union Baptist Chapel on Oxford Road sat on a plot of
land between St. Mary's Hospital and the Manchester Royal
Infirmary.
It was designed by the
architects Medland and Henry
Taylor and built at a cost of £20,000.
This chapel was a new home for
the congregation who had previously worshipped at a chapel just beyond
Grafton Street. As you can see, that chapel had an adjoining
sunday school. This map dates from 1844. You will note that
beyond Grafton Street is Oxford House and then Nelson Street.
Next to Nelson House on Nelson Street you can see two semi-detached
houses. In 1858 Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters moved into
number 62 the one on the left on the map.
Eventually the chapel was purchased by St. Mary's Hospital and demolished.