Building record 2608/149/0 - Former Lord Street Methodist Sunday School

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 391027 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Former Methodist Sunday School, now in use as theatre. c1850. Brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roof. Two storeys, seven-window range (2-5-2), the outer bays advanced. Doorways in inner angles with outer bays, that to right in added porch. Paired panelled doors in plain architraves. One lower window to right now a doorway. Shallow segmental arches of rubbed red brick to lower windows, paired in outer bays. Similar round-arched windows above. Modillion eaves cornice. End wall stacks.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1873-4, Metric Ten Foot Scale Town Plan of Macclesfield (Maps and Plans). SCH4489.

This building is depicted on this map. It is labelled school and there is a small area between the projecting wings on the north-eastern side labelled playgoround.

<3> Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society, 2024, Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society: MADS Theatre, 21/11/2024 (Web Site). SCH9719.

In 1954 the Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society transferred from their performances from Brocklehurst Memorial Hall to the Methodist Educational School on Lord Street. The Society constructed a theatre on the first floor of the building. In 1976 the theatre was transferred to the ground floor. In 1980 the theatre space was rebuilt adding a proscenium arch and creating tiered seating in a new auditorium.