![]() Other manufacturers of corrugated iron churches in Glasgow included Braby & Company and R. Many of their products were exported to Canada, Africa, and to California and Australia during the gold rushes. Several firms, such as David Rowell & Co., Humphrey's and Frederick Braby in London, Isaac Dixon and Co and Francis Morton in Liverpool, E T Bellhouse in Manchester and A & J Main & Co of Glasgow manufactured a range of iron buildings that included houses, village halls, sports pavilions, warehouses, hospital wards, chapels and churches. St Margaret's Church from South Wonston, near Winchester, Hampshire, is now located at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in West Sussex. St Chad's Mission Church was moved from near Telford to the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust's Blists Hill Victorian Town in Shropshire, while St Saviour's Church from Westhouses in Derbyshire may be seen at the Midland Railway Centre's Swanwick Junction site. Some redundant chapels have been moved to museums for preservation. Several tin tabernacles survive as places of worship some have listed building status and some have been converted to other uses. Isaac Dixon's 1896 catalogue mentioned the company had supplied nearly 150 churches over the previous ten years and the price had dropped from 35 shillings to 20 shillings (£1.75 to £1) per sitting plus the cost of foundations, heating and lighting which could add another £70 for a church to seat 200. David Rowell & Co's 1901 catalogue advertised a church to seat 400 persons, delivered to the nearest railway station and erected on the purchaser's foundation, at a cost of £360. Prices decreased to almost £1 per sitting towards the end of the century. St Mark's Church in Birkenhead, built in 1867, cost more than £2,000 for 500 seats. Įarly tin churches were easily erected, but at an average cost of between £2 and £4 per sitting, were expensive. It was lavishly decorated and furnished and lasted for 50 years until it was replaced. The 3rd Marquess of Bute provided the first Roman Catholic cathedral to be erected in Oban in 1886. Landowners or employers frequently donated plots of land and sometimes donated the cost of the building, although many were funded by public subscription. The sides and roof are of corrugated iron, and present the appearance externally of a huge tin cannister."Ĭhurches, chapels and mission halls were built in new industrial areas, pit villages, near railway works and in more isolated rural and coastal locations. The building has an odd appearance, and as it is but a temporary structure, it has been not inaptly termed the "tin tabernacle". On Thursday last the "United Free Church Primitive Methodists" opened a new iron building at the corner of Argyle Street and the Woodbridge Road. William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts Movement, wrote a pamphlet in 1890 decrying the construction of corrugated iron buildings "that were spreading like a pestilence over the country." A 65-by-40-foot (20 by 12 m) church built entirely of cast and wrought iron clad in corrugated iron was built in Jamaica at a cost of £1,000. However, manufacturers found other markets, notably in the colonies of the British Empire where 19 such churches were erected in Melbourne, Australia alone by 1851. ![]() ![]() The Church of England, influenced by Pugin, the Cambridge Camden Society and John Ruskin, was initially sceptical about corrugated iron buildings. Towns and cities expanded as the workforce moved into the new industrial areas resulting in the building of more than 4,000 churches during the mid 19th century and an upsurge of nonconformism led to a demand for even more buildings. The Industrial Revolution was a time of great population expansion and movement in Europe. A floating iron church in the Scottish Highlands (1840s)
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