Holy Trinity, Uttoxeter Road and Box Lane, Meir. 1890-1.

Holy Trinity, Meir

photo: ©  Geoff Pick Aug 2007

Resurrection, Belgrave Road (s).

The church is an architectural mystery. It is of red brick, very loudly diapered, and it has a polygonal apse with cross-gables, another motif that strikes one as rather demonstrative. Even more so is the interior, which is of yellow brick with red brick bands and has piers continuing into single-chamfered arches.

Yet the literature says: Consecrated 1853, designed by George Gilbert Scott, enlarged 1873 by Lynam (GR only), the chancel enlarged 1903 by J. H. Beckett. Nothing of all this seems to make sense.*

* Though the polychromy is consistent with that at Scott's church at Crewe Green in Cheshire of 1857-8.

Church of the Resurrection

photo: Steve Birks June 2001

The Duke of Sutherland provided land for a church and graveyard bordering on the edge of the Dresden estate at the bottom of Red Bank.

  on the Church of the Resurrection
 

Congregational church, Drubbery Lane and Trentham Road. 1969 by Thomas Lovatt. Dark brick, with a pyramid roof.

Sutherland institute and free library,

The Strand (s). 1897-9 by Wood & Hutchings. Red brick and yellow terracotta. Symmetrical.

Across the centre above the ground floor a frieze of terracotta relief illustrating the pottery industry. This is of 1908-9.

Sutherland Institute, Longton

Completed in 1898 on land donated by the Duke of Sutherland who lived at nearby Trentham Hall. The building is now one of Stoke on Trent's libraries and also houses the Hothouse Project to help fledgling businesses

photo: © Phil Eptlett  Feb 2006

Entrance to Sutherland Institute, Longton
Impressive entrance to the Sutherland Institute and Free Library

Panel above entrance to Sutherland Institute, Longton

In the centre of the frieze an enthroned female figure sits with a cherubic figure seated at her feet. A group of workers kneel before her as they present her with the finished products of their labours.
Over the windows, a bass relief terracotta frieze illustrates scenes of the industries of Pottery, Mining, and Metal Processing.
The Institute was opened by the Duke of Sutherland on 28 October 1899, but at that time the space now occupied by the frieze remained empty. It was only in 1908 that funds became available for the addition of this piece.
 

photos: Steve Birks   Sept 2006

on the Libraries of Stoke-on-Trent